Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can help you comfort a friend, family member, or acquaintance that has just lost someone close. Poems can also validate ...

October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...

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

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

Jay Nikolewski knew from an early age where he wanted to live. Nikolewski never felt comfortable growing up in America and ...

Darius Atefat-Peckham '23 speaks about his journey as a poet and a person with grace, gratitude, and love, exemplifying the ...

Thoughts of Sterling uses vivid, thought-provoking language and words as pictures to navigate contrasts that define the human spirit—hope and despair, love and heartbreak, the beauty of a relationship ...

"I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies" by June Jordan JOSÉ OLIVAREZ: I’m attracted to the way the poem’s rage is grounded in ...

We asked essayists to write a letter to the person they were when they published their Modern Love essay. Here’s what they ...

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

A shapeshifting medium, it doesn’t always look the same. Robert Frost’s short yet prolific “The Road Not Taken” is poetry ...

This summer and fall, fires consumed California and much of the west. Extreme heat brought suffering and death across the ...