Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

For many of us, the run-up to Valentine's Day is spent seeking out the least cringe-worthy card in the shop to gift to our significant other, and sho ...

Feeling lost and disconnected, he began to understand a profound truth: healing is not a solitary act. In his deeply personal memoir, No Journey Is Done Alone, Thornton shares his journey from despair ...

Both poets explore love as a transformative and omnipotent force, delving into its complexities and transcendence. Donne ...

For a long time, microbes like the ones in Yellowstone's hot springs were studied in isolation. Molecular ecologist Devaki ...

For the 60th anniversary of the release of "A Love Supreme" the Village Voice asked dozens of sax players to muse on the jazz masterpiece.

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...

If the American experience had a cinematic poet, it was him. The news that Lynch had left us was shocking only because it seemed that he’d be here with us forever.

the better to read all the other poems ever written. Joan Didion’s Diary: The notes, taken after meetings with her psychiatrist, will be published in April as a book, “Notes to John.” ...

Whether a grown-up lady or a sweet little beautiful girl, when parents express their love using literature in the form of poems for daughters, it somehow becomes a heart-warming core memory in ...