A rose by any other name would smell as sweet: so Shakespeare, or rather Juliet, would have us think. It's an interesting line of thought for a poet – this link, if any exists, between a word and the ...

In his teenage mind, Antwon Rose II wrestled with thoughts of hope, fear and uncertainty about growing up black in America. After a suburban Pittsburgh officer fatally shot the unarmed 17-year-old as ...

Wanna know my favorite thing about these poems? Hardly any of them even had anything to do with romantic love. People are using Valentine's Day as a time to create romantic "roses are red" poems about ...

The artist and former gallerist Aaron Rose had the coolest indie gallery in an era of creative explosion in downtown New York. A new book (of old work) captures that long-lost moment. By Marisa ...