His name refers to the feat of having learned the Koran by heart. The intimations of divinity in this short poem are apt because Hafiz was a devotee of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that speaks ...

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

A los hombres les encantan las palabras dulces; les encanta sentirse queridos. Hoy, descubramos 6 poemas de amor para ...

Soni's poem was filled with love and humor, ending with, "I know my poem's not that great, but its heart’s in the right place ...

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

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

The latest from Columbia poet Gabriel Fried explores thin places between expressions of gender, between faith and doubt.

Mulligan tells IndieWire about "The Ballad of Wallis Island," from bringing her newborn to set to recording an entire album.

I write it out, three or four times, enough so that I know it by heart ... If reading short stories offered an efficient way to forget the world I was living in, reciting a poem gave me a ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Shriver recalls the ensuing “self-pity party” that included “a litany of trips to various therapists, healers, shamans, and ...

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...