Poetry is an art form that reaches into one's very being, and toys with very sensitive emotions. I believe that is why poems convey certain feelings and bring back certain memories.
Nicki Richesin | Posted 05.27.2012
How The Heather Looks by Joan Bodger delivers us from our daily routine to the magical world of English children's literature.
John Lundberg | Posted 05.25.2012
In his "Ode to Autumn," John Keats somewhat cheekily asks the question, "Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?" Well, spring is back and singing again.
Justin Snider | Posted 05.19.2012
Mike Daisey is a man damned -- or so the blogosphere, journos and pundits the world over would have us believe. He conflated fact and fiction, and he ...
Posted 02.03.2012
Photographer Annie Leibovitz is known for her captivating photographs of people, mostly celebrities. Her portraits, through spectacle, evoke the essen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mallika Rao | Posted 12.10.2011
Emily Dickinson was born 181 years ago today. A "nobody" in her lifetime and canonized after death, she wrote strange, affecting poems built as much b...
Barbara Mossberg | Posted 02.09.2012
Dickinson knew she was considered a "nobody" and she defiantly took on that identity with panache: "How dreary to be Somebody." Yet she yearned to be famous, to be immortal, to matter utterly to us, to be "great, Someday."
Posted 11.27.2011
With the 23rd season of The Simpsons premiering on Sunday, America's longest-running sitcom is still going strong. Despite the perennial complaints ab...
Lonni Collins Pratt | Posted 08.29.2011
Hope is often misunderstood. Many people consider hope a synonym for wishing, or optimism, or positive thinking. It's not. Hope is tougher than that. So are the people who make hoping a way of life.
The Guardian | Helen Oyeyemi | Posted 08.08.2011
People came to visit her and left feeling shaken. Often because she refused to see them, but sometimes because she didn't refuse....
Slate Magazine | Noreen Malone | Posted 07.26.2011
According to the Associated Press Stylebook--Slate's bible for all things punctuation- and grammar-related--there are two main prose uses--the abrupt ...
The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011
It is absolutely horrible to go unappreciated. Unfortunately for these authors, most of them remained completely unrecognized during life, and did not...
Stephanie Green | Posted 05.25.2011
Here are some classic examples of Miss Dickinson's naughty but nice verses. Caution: Do not try reading these at home alone.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
An MIT faculty member partnered with a poet to publish a so-called poetry generator, which uses language from the work of Emily Dickinson and Melville...
Marshall P. Duke | Posted 05.25.2011
When asked to write papers on a particular topic, a class of 20 students will provide slightly different variations on work based upon the exact same set of references and sources. This hints at a serious problem for the coming generations.
Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
When we work our fingerprints into the clay -- be our clay of choice material, linguistic, or the formation of friendships -- we answer our highest calling.
Posted 05.25.2011
The new book "What The Great Ate: A Curious History Of Food & Fame" tells you that Madonna, when she was struggling to make ends meet, used to pick Fr...
John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011
My mother likes to tell me that even if I showed up at her door and told her I'd committed a felony--murder, whatever--she would still love me. In honor of that devotion, here are some poems for Mother's Day.
Posted 05.25.2011
We're not sure what to say about this video of Bill Murray reading poetry to Manhattan construction workers. The actor stopped by during the construct...
Posted 05.25.2011
If you thought Mike Bloomberg's talents stopped at business, politics, and golf, apparently you'd be wrong. The mayor flexed his poetry muscles in ho...
The Boston Globe | Lyndall Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011
Following her father's death, poet Emily Dickinson did something unthinkable in his lifetime: She began to romance her father's best friend. This exce...
2morrowknight | Posted 05.25.2011
Soulstrip is for the global citizen whose dream is about connectedness and a healthy respect for all shades of humanity.
Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
A partial ceiling collapse at the Emily Dickinson Homestead in Amherst has damaged some historical artifacts and forced a temporary closure of the mus...
The Poetry Foundation | Stephen Burt | Posted 05.25.2011
Stephen Burt The Poetry Foundation If you follow contemporary poetry but you haven't been following "Project Runway," the popular cable TV show now i...
John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011
The new website PoetrySpeaks is aiming to serve as a social networking hub and online marketplace for poets.
Murray Rosenbaum | Posted 05.03.2012