National identities are also the source of fierce loyalties and resistances. They elevate individual stories to the weight ...

I’d been conditioned to believe that all women should want both of those things and be quietly apologetic if we failed to ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Norfolk’s Tim Seibles receives a lifetime achievement award from the Furious Flower Poetry Center, joining other top ...

Three to five days a week, Bernthal takes his typewriter to Valencia Street, Dolores Park, or another part of San Francisco to sell street poetry.

Scott Cairns has kindled the warm, baritone fires of poetry for decades ... Cairns writes: "When I must also / be severed ...

There were muses specifically for comedy, tragedy and even erotica. The oldest was Calliope, mother of the legendary musician ...

I have almost completely lost my sex drive. I just plain am not interested in it. I love my husband with my whole heart. He’s the best thing that ever happened to me. I couldn’t imagine life ...

Julianna Margulies had a complicated home life as a teen, but she found love and ... job to start my sophomore year in high school, my mother was living with a 21-year-old man in our house ...

which isn’t actual love. Glück’s poem stirred by ancient Greece is haunting and melancholic. It lingers with the reader for a long time. “When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, ...

I was incredibly good with money. The way my ex-husband treats his new wife may frustrate those who love me. I love them for that. I love not only their loyalty, but that they see me for who I ...