Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year.

As if a world of concrete things were to be gathered into the titular abstraction; or as if Kipling's rightness were presently to be proved remarkable in that it is all wrong. And yet, I think, ...

Barbarian invaders may not even exist, but our fear, anxiety, anger and exhaustion do exist. Our insomnia, substance use, ...

The heart, quick, outgrows its own allotted cavity, and bends a branch right   (every time) and back—pivots into the cardiac ...

Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9, but her legacy lives on. From new tributes, a documentary and the work she ...

RELATIONSHIP IS HEALING ONE POEM AT A TIME. HER STORY MADE IT TO OUR NEWSCAST. A FEW YEARS AGO, HER EX-BOYFRIEND ENDED UP PLEADING GUILTY TO DOMESTIC ASSAULT. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S QUANECIA FRASER ...

A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then ...

Healing is not linear or categorizable but is an obscure odyssey of the soul that meanders, stagnates, and has ups and downs. It warps time, intertwining our past and present, perspectives, ...

Cassie Phillips was a member of “Women in Black,” homeless women and supporters who host annual Leaves of Remembrance ...

A study published in The Journal of Social Psychology found that while men increasingly value emotional openness in ...

Can you spot the Easter eggs and figure out which song inspired each poem? Which song inspired this poem? Agodon follows ...

The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 ...