These fifteen short poems pay tribute to women who inspire with their strength, tenderness, and unwavering love. Verses that ...

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, ...

In This Could Be a Love Poem for You, her fourth collection of verse, Ranu Uniyal offers a powerful poetic account of her wrestling with the profound sense of loss that pervades her everyday existence ...

It's not easy expressing your adoration for the woman in your life. Select some love poems for her and tell her how you really feel. Love languages may vary from one person to another, but it would be ...

“[c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place.... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person’s lab.” —James D. Watson, The Double Helix (1968) I am the ...

I initially had no idea if I would have anything to say about President Michael D Higgins’s new spoken poetry project, Against All Certainty, but after a day absorbed in it this is what I want to say: ...

Mallika Bhaumik’s third collection of poems, When Times is a Magic Jar, has memory and a lost past as major motifs in her evocative verses. For she is able to make time melt in the palm, shrink it to ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

DEEP TIES RIGHT HERE TO BOSTON. JOHN. YEAH, THEY SURE DO. AND YOU KNOW, MANY PEOPLE KNOW HIM FROM THE COSBY SHOW, BUT HE HAD SO MANY OTHER TALENTS AND HE SHOWCASED MANY OF THOSE TALENTS HERE AT ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...