Poetry can help us encounter the mystery at the heart of the matter without being destroyed.

While writing “Book of Kin”, Atefat-Peckham witnessed how similar love poems and elegies truly are ... beloved in one couplet to mourning a lost loved one in the next, without altering ...

The very name of this holiday — “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah cycle — connotes an ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She ...

Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star ...

You can usually stir up debate by comparing song lyrics to poetry. As a publication that highlights the exploits of ...

A collection of nonsense poems, drawings and other jottings by a young John Lennon will head to auction on Tuesday (October ...

Incredibly, The Cure have been around since the late ’70s and they’re still going. That’s not to say they’ve been perfectly consistent: Their latest album is 4:13 Dream from 2008. Finally, though, the ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She placed the book on her dressing table next to a framed photo of her with ...