John Evelev from MU's English Department shares how his literary research gave him a new appreciation for the holiday.

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

We are celebrating love in all forms this lover’s holiday! Zora Neale Hurston is the perfect icon to honor on Valentine’s Day ...

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

Haidar Ghazali, a 20-year-old poet from Gaza, observes a city where war lingers - not in bombs, but in what it leaves behind.

In this week of Valentine’s Day, an evening of “Poetry and Love” kicks it off on February 15 with readings by poets Rajnii Eddins and Farmer Ama.

We have the answer for NOUN: "a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead" crossword clue that will help you solve the ...

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." ...

Grief also plays an outsized role in Gizzi’s poetry. An elegy is, after all, a lamentation ... We have found a remarkable way ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... What her work shares with O’Hara’s, here, is a love of life and living, even in moments of poverty, crisis and pain. That, and an ability ...