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

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

The 67-year-old Blondie is best known for her supreme ability to crush beer cans with her breasts. She’s been doing it since ...

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

I’ve always compared the act of writing to getting a kite to fly. That’s how it feels to me: running headlong into a kind of energy, hoping that the voice of this poem will fly. Though it ...

The Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Program, in partnership with the Spanish section, invites the U of A community to a celebration of love and friendship from 2-3 p.m. today in J.B. Hunt ...

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

May this February 14th be filled with love and romance. Share these poems with your soulmate and let them know how much they ...

The prince, Charles d’Orléans, was not, in fact, imprisoned when he wrote his famous poem. He was safe and sound in France. Nor was he writing to a special love but, rather, to a woman ...

The Song of Songs is the only work in the Bible that focuses exclusively on human-to-human love, not human-to-divine – at least on the surface level of the poem. Ancient Jews and ... and his right ...

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.