Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Her offspring will face “a life of being swept about on the whipping stem of a teasel”, yet she is resilient, evolved to weather the storms. Reading this poem recalls the work of Padel’s ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Robson's dad, Brian, wrote 'Little Girl' when Karen was a young child. After thinking the recording was lost, it has been ...

It’s often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

February's writer-curator on Something I Heard, Diane Raptosh, shares one of her own poems, an untitled American sonnet.

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They found out that a ... Feb. 3, 2025 — New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists ... Life-Bearing Water Arrived on Earth Later ...