Young poets of Kashmir, mostly in their twenties, remain largely unknown. Some are aware of the risks of antagonising ...

Around a circle of lawn chairs Cleo and her extended family of women go, singing their granola hippie songs, having made it ...

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

Has the portrayal of Black women on television improved over the years? In the past, there were only a few TV shows per decade that depicted and celebrated friendship among Black women.

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 ...

“My wife writes in the morning; I write at night. I prefer the peace and quiet of low light. But right now as I write this, I watch news of the world going to war. Peaceful weather is no more as ...

Listen to a spring poem with Storm from Down on the Farm.

The breast cancer death rate continues to decline among US women, a new American Cancer Society report finds, but diagnoses are becoming more common among younger women. Getty Images / iStockphoto ...

Carroll was only 17 years old when she left her native Co Mayo, an experience she detailed in this unnamed poem she wrote in the 1980s. “She was an amazing woman and had a great life until she ...