“That is why we are inviting Essex youngsters to send us in a poem celebrating their mum – or the person who is like a mother ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

She does not post anything on social media, except everything. Poets often use irony to criticise as well as mock their subject matter. So you get the sense that this is a confessional poem about an ...

Kids haven't experienced true holiday magic until the first time they hear A Visit from St. Nicholas. That long-form poem ...

I love my son and grandson but I can’t stand his living situation since his divorce. His ex was the biggest button pusher, but since their separation, she just steamrolls my son. She snaps her ...

Brooke Berman knows what it means to be in the trenches. Not the kind with sandbags and fatigues, but the kind that come with ...

All of those chores I did for years for my son were out of love, and I want him to know how to do the same for himself and his family one day. So in a way, it's also out of love that I'm teaching ...

Poetry celebrates its 36th anniversary tonight, marking 1,880 consecutive weeks of poetry readings in downtown Hot Springs, ...

As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

I wrote a column that grappled with hope amid a world facing dark times. One of the things on my mind was starving children in Gaza. The column wasn't specifically about Gaza or the Middle East. It ...

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

One day in March of 2021, my son, who had just turned 16, came home urgently. At the time, I was living in Washington D.C., while he was in New Hampshire at a boarding school which he had joined ...