“The new Taylor Swift album, The Tortured Poets Department, really hit me hard,” I told my therapist exactly one year ago. I ...

If I’m really serious about getting better, I need to get better,” said Luther Kissam V.  Cole Kissam, otherwise known as his ...

If I’m really serious about getting better, I need to get better,” said Luther Kissam V.  Cole Kissam, otherwise known as his pen name Luther Kissam V, is a poet and writer from Charlotte, North ...

John Lennon was known for his openness, often reserving his harshest criticism for his own songs. One such song that he ...

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How do I know where to draw the line? -- Overwhelmed and Worn Out Dear Overwhelmed: Being a good employee and reliable friend doesn’t mean saying yes to everything. If you feel resentment brewing, ...

In a blurry photo from my first trip to Poland at 19, me and my godmother, one of my mother’s ten siblings, are laughing together, a thousand feet into the earth, in a 13th century chapel made ...

In a world that idolizes success and visibility, choosing to live an ordinary life can be a radical act of self-acceptance ...

In his 1912 poem “Out of Debt,” Jamaican American and Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay writes from the perspective of a father who rejoices in being debt-free on Christmas and appreciates ...

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Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?