"I imagined them falling asleep and waking up next to someone else, calling someone else when they were hurting, and marrying someone else instead of me." ...

Even now that I'm happily married, Valentine's Day is just another day. A handwritten note and a bunch of chocolate (not ...

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If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

In our new column, Split Gums, Maren Logan reflects on the experience of coming of age and realizing you know way less about ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

"So, this is how it feels," I thought. To borrow and turn around the words of the novelist, Milan Kundera, I felt a wonderful "lightness of being". That moment came back to me this week.

At the same time, my blood pressure and heart rate went through the roof because my heart was desperately trying to get me to breathe ... they were so bad that I thought I was going to die ...

I loved that part ... kind of got to me.” Despite being a memorable scene, Stiles admitted that the two takes didn’t fare well given she actually had to redo the poem reading and re-create ...

People are generally warmer, and even my sister recently told me that even if the hospital sucked “at least you lost the weight.” I’m so sad and feel like all these people I thought I knew ...

(It can cause problems in rare cases, Ditye told me, if, say, you can’t call out a loved one’s name when they’re walking into traffic.) Still, if you avoid saying the names of those closest ...