Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Valentine's Day may not seem like the single best day for you if you are single. But, there are more than a couple of things that you can do on February 14. In fact, here are 14.

Check out funny roses are red, violets blue jokes, poems, and memes. The posts lists jokes you can use as pick up lines or conversation starters.

Valentine's Day is almost here, and what better way to score some brownie points than to hit your boo up with some cute puns?

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

In its six-decade quest to return to its New York roots, the classic musical “Funny Girl” got used to the world raining on its parade. After an array of false starts and high-profile planned ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

I remember, as a student, it felt like a test, when I was reading or more properly looking at modernist poetry and understanding nothing, because I didn’t know what it would mean to understand a ...

Whether a grown-up lady or a sweet little beautiful girl, when parents express their love using literature in the form of poems for daughters, it somehow becomes a heart-warming core memory in ...