During the Victorian era, the concept of floriography, or the language of flowers, grew. So, what message do you want to send ...

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

Understanding of these four parts [breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb] has changed over time—positing at some times that ...

Before his death, Valentine wrote a letter to the jailer’s daughter, signing it “From your Valentine.” But it is Geoffrey ...

It’s often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping ...

They entered the spring-time of my life like the composite rhythm of a poem. To my surprise ... describes the significance of the virtue of purity for many Catholics at that time.

Yet for all the scorn heaped upon it, purity culture is not the most pressing threat today. Even if it proved ...

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

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Gorman cautions parents to be awake to the rise in book bans across the country, which will primarily impact children of middle and low-income families.

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite of poems entirely in Scots.” If your first thought is “But ...

The Inaugural Tarling Aria Trophy – an exciting new category for singers ’36 & Over’ - saw four seasoned singers all with professionally trained backgrounds. Winner of the trophy, Stephanie Cortesi, ...