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

Alongside her razor-sharp critiques on men and intellectual bravado, Sor Juana penned intimate love letters that read like ...

What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

Like so many who have come before them, Kyle Kuzma and Winnie Harlow’s romance was born in the DMs. Only Harlow didn’t ...

The award-winning poet died on Feb. 11 in Dorchester at the age of 60. Her friends, students and colleagues share memories ...

The broadcaster and writer is president of Hay Festival, which takes place in May and June. Colin Smythe reflects ... of Sonnet 116 tucked away in a poetry collection in Oxford.

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Alongside the erotic, satirical offerings from Decapitated Poetry, this volume includes selections from Chen’s remarkable sci-fi sequences that offer further transcorporeal meditations on forbidden ...

Despite the care and love that Shakespeare holds for this boy, there is still a dark side to his poem, and he laments the day that the youth will die. Shakespeare knows all too well that with the ...

As readers of his poetry, we’re just along for the ride. The critic Adam Plunkett expertly teases out the many meanings of Frost’s poems in “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s ...