Quote of the Day invites readers to reflect on how they engage with ideas, traditions and information. Rather than promoting ...
Rudyard Kipling’s iconic poem If— offers timeless wisdom on how to remain composed in the face of chaos. The opening lines ...
An exploration of what constitutes the literary arts – plus all the ‘troubled hearts’ and demons that accompany it – through the lens of Shakespeare’s Hamlet ...
Emily Dickinson, whose birthday was December 10, 1830, was a poet known for her reclusive lifestyle. Many of us today, being increasingly reclusive ourselves, have grown to appreciate the incredible ...
As much as everyone loves a good poem, there is always a poet behind the magic. We read the poems, we laugh, we cry, we rejoice with happiness, we get sad. That's the beauty of poetry: It's meant to ...
An elegy to the ecstasy of life in the gutter. By Jackie Wang Selected by Anne Boyer Jackie Wang’s poem draws its title, in part, from Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel of queer love, “Nightwood”: “ladies of ...