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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

Aranya Johar is something of a viral sensation in her native India. A YouTube video of her reciting her poem “A Brown Girl’s Guide to Gender,” which tackled misogyny, rape and cat-calling, has gained ...

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 ...

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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, ...