These poems are an ode to the feelings experienced on the fringes of what's socially accepted, but that doesn't make them any ...

Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom ... It’s a children’s poem, four stanzas, all with the same hypnotic AA/BB/AA rhyme scheme.

Margaret Yapp’s Green For Luck (Eastover Press) is a refreshing shock to the senses. Every page asks the reader to unlearn ...

For the Fourth Sunday of Easter in Year C, John Connell reflects on the Gospel’s message of Jesus as a shepherd, who knows ...

On her tenth album, 'I Inside the Old Year Dying', PJ Harvey returned to her Dorset roots to deliver some of her most arresting poetry.

Mother's Day is big business in the United States. The National Retail Federation predicts that 84% of U.S. adults plan to celebrate the holiday in 2025, with an average per-participant spending ...

In “Young Person’s Guide,” for instance, Tilson Thomas demonstrated an undying love of every aspect of ... led off with “Immer Wieder” to a poem by Rilke. Frederica von Stade, still ...

The word love is elusive, a noun without context. However, its verb form, "loving," is more than the thing. It invokes poetry ...