We're born to die, but we're still shocked when You, Lord, call 'kin' home. Our neighbor left, her kids were shocked, no more on earth she'll roam. Another chap lost his sweet wife, no 'kin' are even ...

Throughout history, mothers have held a sacred place in Armenian culture and society.  They are revered as the embodiment of ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words - and that's an understatement when you look at the work of Dustin Nispel or ...

Corey Van Landingham, a graduate of Purdue's creative writing MFA program has published three poetry collections. Her third, "Reader, I," explores the nuances of romantic relationships in conversation ...

The book begins with “My Partisan Grief, SuperNova ... had been changed by his father from Lifshitz when he first came to America from Minsk. And so he wrote a poem, titled “Yocheved ...

Despite wanting to be a doctor at first, Janae Lu, 17, found her high school English classes much more interesting than ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

Briana Corr Scott has lived with depression all her life. Despite a life filled with love –­ of family, nature, and art – she ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

In this 1901 poem, excerpted above, a drunk father quickly sobers up on Christmas ... religious poems and poems for the grieving. Rossetti’s “Love Came Down at Christmas” has simple verses ...

Maria Shriver shared how her marriage to ex Arnold Schwarzenegger went "from love and freedom to pain and prison" when she ...