with your one wild and precious life? An invocation to our vulnerability and truest selves, Oliver asks us: What does it mean to live a wild life and to be wild? What do we do when time is so precious ...

With October come and nearly gone, the autumnal beauty overtaking Cape Cod is hard to deny. The leaves are shades of yellow, orange and red. The air is beginning to get a slight bitter chill and ...

Housework is a chore for many, and a pleasure for some. Poet Faith Shearin's mother sees it as the former. "My mother despises what can never truly be done," Shearin writes in the book Sweeping Beauty ...

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,” ...

I hate sharing my poetry with people. I don’t mean that I get all sheepish and a little red in the face, but bashfully and begrudgingly do it anyway. No, I mean that I abhor it. It’s counterintuitive, ...

There’s a joy in finding a Billy Collins poem nestled among the pompous, arcane stuff that clogs the typical anthology of contemporary verse. Poem after poem about … Well, what are they about? After ...

One of the few things almost everyone can agree on about contemporary American poetry is that no one can agree on much. At present, poetry is a jumbled landscape, with no single, dominant style and ...

"Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman," the first retrospective of one of a small number of professional female artists working in the second half of the 19th century ...

“We were fasting because it was Ramadan,” Talukder told NBC News. “I insisted on giving the news before they broke their fast, which not everyone was happy about.” As part of receiving the prize, ...