The question it asks is a rich one, and I use that word deliberately: Why is there such a yawning gap between that box-ticking “and the actual feeling, the ancient miracle of love?” ...

She held a hard-fought Ph.D. in chemistry, but Helen Schaefer was probably best known in Tucson for her love and generous support ... And when the UA Poetry Center opened in its glittering new ...

The poem was written by Liu Zhangqing (726-789), who lived during China's Tang Dynasty (618-907), an era known not only for ...

We’re more international than parochial in our tastes. The only common factor among our writers is that they love poetry and are widely read Making all of this happen is a small but ...

To track how this critically endangered porpoise's habitat range has changed over time, a team of biodiversity and conservation experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise ...

The story of Philinnion blurs the line between love and the uncanny, making it one of Greece’s most chilling ghost legends. Credit: Matthias lueger, CC BY NC ND 2.0 In the shadows of ancient Greece’s ...

Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks and Romans. But back then, marriage had little to do with love or with ...

Credit: Painting by Jean Alaux (1812) Public Domain When Penelope and Odysseus reunite after twenty long years, the Odyssey concludes as a love story wherein the ... As in every ancient Greek poem or ...