These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

He would say to me, “You can write them, too.” After his death, I finally ventured into writing those short poems and realized they were all about breath, how we breathe the world in and ...

Pooja Bhatt discusses ageing, authenticity, and why embracing flaws makes us human in an industry obsessed with perfection.

“People started reaching out and telling me that it changed their lives.” Cassie Phillips, a 32-year-old Virginia mom-of-two, claims the book took inspiration from a poem she shared on Faceboo ...

Plunkett is all in; he calls this line “a creed,” adding that it “set a standard for the rest of Frost’s poetry.” But his explanations of it don’t really help me: “The creed declares ...

Rajat Mittal was constantly told that he should colour within the lines and ‘be more boyish’. Today, he is driving a positive ...

Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

In his poem “Nyla Brook,” Robert Frost wrote, “We love the things we love for what they are.” A simple brook returning after ...

A number of these poems are about relationships. She reflects on all phases, the beginnings ... the kinds of stories that Kim Dower told me during our recent radio interview.

Transgender veterans, like me, are seven times more likely than civilians to attempt suicide during their lifetime. We need more support, not less.