“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

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

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Below, James Flannery, Winship Professor of Arts and Humanities and Director of the W.B ... of Yeats at his inability to win the hand of Maud also inspired some of the most heart-scalding poetry ...

There is a big push to get people to sign up to be organ and tissue donors. The effort is called *have a heart and give a heart.* In Maine, the vast majority of donors sign up at the BMV when they ...

This exquisite dual-language edition of Gil de Biedma’s selected poems reveals the voice of a preeminent poet of mid-20th-century Spain. Gil de Biedma (1929–1990), a closeted gay man and left ...

Jeremiah says, “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jer. 17:9) But later he writes, “I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the ...

This weekend marks the network’s final NBA All-Star Game, as it gets set to end ... As per his tradition, Johnson closed the event with a poem. But this one had a unique touch, as Johnson ...

London was still in denial that it could be a heart attack. “I eat right. I exercise all the time. My lab markers are all good. Like, come on, this can’t be. It’s not possible,” he recalls ...

As many as 10 percent of all heart attacks occur before age 45. The factors leading to those attacks begin in childhood, a reminder that prevention — largely through diet and lifestyle — should begin ...

Dedicating a love poem, especially to a broken heart, is an act that can bring comfort, understanding, and a spark of hope. Through words, we can feel accompanied and understood, as if the poet ...