The mother of 17-year-old Karlianne Short wrote a poem in memory of her daughter that was read Friday at the sentencing of ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Angela Short walked into a Syracuse courtroom Friday holding a white marble box containing her teen daughter ...

A tourist who is out of time approaches the end of his or her trip and must return home soon. This is how the Rev. David May ...

They'd sing and play, read some and dance, then sit down for a rest. Their Dad and Mom encouraged them, they knew Grandma loved girls. Gram helped them pick out pretty clothes and loved their long ...

A poet, raised among refugees in New York's Washington Heights, confronts the ghosts that inhabited his childhood.

Friendship poems to celebrate your bestie Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any ...

Christell Victoria Roach is an Emmy-nominated writer and a 2022-2024 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

Probably no sonnet has ever meant so much to so many people as the one by Emma Lazarus that adorns the Statue of Liberty in ...

Just before Mother’s Day, folk-rock staple Ben Harper became Son of the Year when he released a whole album of duets with his ...

Ghayath Almadhoun writes a transformative love poem as the beloved and the lover negotiate minefields and soldiers, Adorno, and a collapsing Tower of Babel.

Cystic fibrosis shortened Megan Tims Phillips' life but didn't make it smaller. As her mother hoped for more time, daughter ...