My poem, by the way, was “The Wreck of the Schooner Hesperus” by Henry Wadsworth ... modern poetry has supposedly become too esoteric, abstract, obscure, self-indulgent and self-referential. Such ...

DMX’s Ex-Wife Reveals Unseen Truths in “Dying to Self” Memoir . I n a world where fame often comes with a veil of secrecy, ...

Dying for Melodrama Thirty years after her suicide, Sylvia Plath continues to seduce the adolescent psyche. But her fans are just as likely to romanticize her death as they are her poetry.

Gary Turk, is a spoken word poet whose poem Look Up illustrates what is at stake by becoming entranced by technological ways of communicating at the expense of connecting with others face-to-face.

Tashera Simmons has bared her soul to heal, and now, as a new author, she’s allowing the rest of the world to see who she is through her debut novel, Dying To Self: A Journey of Renewal. Many ...

With Dying to Self, Simmons has poured years of private pain and resilience into pages intended not to relive the past, but to liberate others from their own. The memoir isn’t a tell-all.

The singer talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about Harvey's album I Inside the Old Year Dying, a ragged, highly crafted adaptation of her epic poem Orlam. It's a work that runs on the rhythm of ...

F or a Christian, the obvious answer to the question “what needs to die?” is “the self.” As Jesus tells his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up ...