As Iran welcomes the first day of spring, two significant occasions converge on March 21st: Nowruz, the Persian New Year, and ...

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

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

Author Shana Youngdahl reflects on her new YA novel, 'A Catalog of Burnt Objects,' inspired by the real-life destruction—both ...

Saxophonist Javon Jackson plays at Sculler’s Jazz Club in Boston on March 22nd. His newest albums include the collaboration “Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies,” released just before Nikki Giovanni’s ...

Here's a love poem that has just the right touch to sweep your partner off their feet. Remember, you have the freedom to tweak it as you like, even personalize it. In the vast universe, finding you ...

On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

Ira Joe Fisher is set to launch his newest poetry collection, “The Birth of Snow,” at a book signing event March 26 hosted at the Ridgefield Library ...

Loyola's Social Justice Week invited poet Shivani Gupta to instruct using the power of the pen to combat injustice.

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

By accepting that love can be both steady and electric, we open ourselves up to a richer, more fulfilling form of intimacy.