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

Feeling like the odd one out is something Lakewood High School junior Mel Diemert has dealt with her entire life.

Dr Sanjeev Chopra Authors of most books published in the last two years – and I know this from reading the Prologue/Preface/Acknowledgments in books nominated for the Valley of Words Book Awards – ...

Marianne Faithfull, the London-born singer with an inimitable voice, has passed away at the age of 78. She was known for many ...

I don’t hate this one but I feel like he could do better still. I like the rhyme and it feels like he put a bit of effort into it, I just feel like it’s not very personalised to me. I’d probably give ...

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

When “Uncle” Samuel L. Jackson introduced Kendrick Lamar for his Super Bowl performance at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans ...

Becky and Benny were childhood sweethearts who went their separate ways in college. Now, she is his wife and caretaker as he battles Alzheimer's.

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

“I like playing with words, but I realized that a lot of people were a lot better at it than me,” she said ... buildings that people walk by every day?” she said. Poem submissions must ...

Men, I guarantee you that regardless if you’ve been married 40 years and never acknowledged Valentine’s Day once in all that ...