In this edition of Don’t Be a Stranger, staff writer Sophia Viggiano discusses the beautiful and irreplicable intricacies ...

6. Sonnet 20: “A woman’s face with Nature's own hand painted” (1609) Sonnet 20 is a poem that speaks of the intersection between gender and beauty, making it one of Shakespeare’s more ...

Intergenerational friendships, however, can create space to just be yourself because what a Gen Zer might consider cool often ...

Thematically, this poem reveals the often uncomfortable ... Like Last Supper, which looks at how some friendships between women can be toxic and corrosive, so too My Rival’s House shows how ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Few people know of Augusta Drane but she was a fascinating figure. She wrote a two-volume biography of a saint in six weeks ...

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante ...

Bring your friends and family and find your inner poet ... Through a series of interactive poetry-based activities and paper-and-pigment-based crafts, participants will relate maps of the GTA ...

These bracelets don’t have a single origin story, and they aren’t the only symbol of a friendship bond between two people ... As Hávamál, a 10-century Norse poem, advised, “Friends ...

The Instituto Cervantes in Naples presents the second edition of the Mediterranean Poetry Festival. Thursday, October 24th ...

Taylor Swift dominates pop culture, politics and business. What about academia? These local professors are centering their ...