Dorcey began her political activism in the 1970s, having returned to Ireland after living in France and England. Having met other queer people abroad, Dorcey was struck by the repression that ...

Researchers across disciplines have attempted to define, categorize, and measure the elusive experience of love.

Here are some beautiful and heartfelt love poems dedicated to secret affairs, those forbidden loves that can't be flaunted in ...

It’s been said that “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving.” Truer words have never been spoken. This is the essence of Joanne Sherry ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

Songwriting and poetry go hand in hand, and these three famous songwriters managed to make their song lyrics sound like poems ...

But he’s thankful for the poems — and the cake. When I reach Robert Pinsky at his Cambridge home, it’s the day before he’s teaching his last MFA seminar at Boston University — and right ...

"I love poetry. I love how it provides students and just people with a unique way to express how they're feeling, to reflect on their lives," Fey said. The book also includes illustrations from ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... Our ears hear four heavy beats. As these examples suggest, there’s a lot of variation within the basic pattern — longer or shorter lines ...