The public are being invited to choose three new quotes from three of Scotland’s national poets to be added to the Scottish ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

Dig out your smallest violin. You're going to need it when you hear the tragic, tear-jerking tale of the Earl of Yarmouth and ...

Maria Teresa Horta, a Portuguese feminist writer who helped shatter her conservative country's strictures on women, died Feb.

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

This year, the world's biggest happiness study will see 30,000 volunteers try different joy-boosting activities, to find out ...

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

York woman Nikki has laid bare abuse suffered at the hands of a partner that left her so hopeless she preferred staying in fear to trying to escape.

Watch: Anne Nolan in tears over tribute poem read at sister Linda's funeral Anne Nolan has ... Anne told Good Morning Britain that a woman living on the street had even brought round teas and coffees ...

turns being made. High and low cultural references – one poem references Gauguin’s Christ and the Velvet Underground within a few clauses – are blended with childhood memories into thrilling ...