While core acts of devotion take center stage, qasidas (Islamic odes) and devotional poetry serve as powerful complements, ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...

Never in doubt of his own abilities, Edgar Allan Poe pursued extremes in literature and in life.

Having jotted down the iambic stanzas on the chopping board and collected the veggies alive from the realms of metaphors that ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

This tradition became more pronounced after Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings). Spanning centuries, these poems reflect deep ... O you of brittle heart — Especially, of patience for the ...

Explore the powerful poetry of former New America Fellows Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, reflecting on culture and the transformative power of words.

SEMINOLE — The Sounds of Soul will perform at First Friday Seminole, set for Friday, April 4, 6 to 9 p.m., in front of Studio ...

In 2011, Maria Shriver ‘s world was ripped apart. Her husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘s affair with the family’s housekeeper, ...

Rip it up. Boil the kettle” the poem tells us – and walk the “high wire between care and control.” They need a “Big heart, thick skin, the patience of Job,” Armitage writes – it’s not an “easy job.” ...

In an exclusive excerpt shared by People on March 24, Shriver, now 69, revealed that the reflective book was a long time ... “It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left ...