No matter how sad I may be, I know a few Walt Whitman verses will remind me of how rare and magnificent it is to be alive. Inspirational poems are like love poems written for life itself.

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

Faiz Ahmed Faiz, a poet shaped by early heartbreak and political disillusionment, blended romance and revolution in his work.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained more than 56,000 people as of mid-June of this year, according to ...

There are some complex emotions, but I don’t think there are complex concepts.” I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing and Living by Josie Balka is now available.

Every Wednesday night, Boston Poetry Slam takes over the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge — and it's a packed house.

Ben Affleck’s “Sad Affleck” meme, born from a 2016 Batman v Superman interview clip, has fueled countless viral images of him looking glum. In a June 2024 interview on chatshow Hart to Heart ...

LIMBONG: But sometimes things don't live up to their name at all, because Robert Frost has a poem called "Nothing New," and it is, in fact, new - to us, at least.

Jay Parini, a Robert Frost biographer, on “Nothing New,” a poem Frost wrote in 1918, which is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

It can seem sometimes now, though, that most poems need to be translated to us by a critic or a teacher. Picked apart and explained to us so that we can understand its deeper meaning. It’s led ...

“Sad girl lit” is everywhere, but young men are glaringly absent from the contemporary canon of popular authors writing about sex and intimacy. Could that be about to change?