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

You may or may not share Dante’s religious convictions, but perhaps you can relate to the notion that romantic love at its ...

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

The legendary romances of the Arab and North African world have have crafted tales of passion so deep, they continue to ...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...