Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

For some people, the shift toward aloneness represents a desire for what researchers call 'positive solitude,' a state that ...

A new anthology edited by US poet laureate Ada Limón invites us into the natural world.

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"but it enables me to meet my fans and what ends up happening is I feel really grateful rather than humiliated because there's so many people." Val is still streaming on Prime Video.

The poem serves as a reminder that life is short and that rather than sitting alone thinking about the past, we should embody the childlike cheer and innocence of the holiday, be kind to whomever ...

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?

A recent article in the Atlantic magazine (January 2025) argued that Americans are more lonely than at any time since 1965, because they spend more time alone ... when we feel our social needs ...

I had begun writing poetry to work through my emotions ... Your words mean something to me. They made me feel better, made me realize I wasn’t alone, made me realize my thoughts matter.

Handler fills us in on exactly what “The Feeling” is that she’s referring to in the title. Masturbation. She describes learning about how to please herself sexually in a slumber party while ...

says her experience of being born Deaf has forced her to learn how to overcome feelings of loneliness due to inaccessibility in daily life. The previous two seasons of Alone Australia were ...