Any poems about love by Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) are bound to be a bit scathing! Parker was an American writer, satirist ...

Her verses revolve around the loss of love and the feeling of ... were of African American, Native American and English ancestry, studied music and wrote poems and plays. When she moved to ...

The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings are poems written in Chinese ... Fortunately, I arrived safely on the American continent. I thought I could land in a few days. How was I to know ...

Whitman opens his American epic with the three ... and you seek him for peace. Love that’s old. What better way to end our ...

Revered Black queer poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s literary works have finally returned to print in a newly released collection called Love is a Dangerous Word: the Selected Poems of Essex ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...