in places she’d rather not name, how her skin there felt more like leather. she already knew what she knew. Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: “Woman in the Painting,” ...

Southerners know that beauty isn’t about looks. You don’t find it in glancing at someone, but in talking to them, connecting with them, understanding them, and comprehending what they love and the ...

'She Walks in Beauty' focuses on marriage and motherhood. April 5, 2011 — -- The only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Caroline ...

Jane Hirshfield, the author of eight books of poetry and two essay collections, has two books out from Knopf this month: “The Beauty: Poems” (107 pages; $26) and “Ten Windows: How Great Poems ...

Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy have made a book that is necessary reading for anyone who has ever made assumptions from a distance about what a burka-wearing woman might be like, and for anyone who ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at St. Gregory's High School. I didn't know him personally, as I did several of ...

Laura Kasischke's prose poem "Look," from Space, in Chains, opens, "Look! I bear into this room a platter piled high with the rage my mother felt for my father!" The brooding agency of that anger ...

Born in Boston, Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848) was a woman deep in the councils of the Transcendentalists and a regular poet in the pages of The Dial, their chief New England journal. In her 1840 “I ...

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States at the Capitol in Washington Jan. 20, 2021. She is a parishioner at St. Brigid ...