What does Mother Teresa have to say to us today? Catherine Wethington writes about her legacy 75 years after she founded the ...

At a tourism pep rally Thursday, cultural figures including artist Theaster Gates and Plain White T’s front man Tom Higgenson pushed back on negative portrayals of Chicago.

Since she was born, Laura Robb has learned to experience life differently than others. She was born with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC), a physical disability that causes her to lack muscle ...

— Lewis Hyde, writing in the Introduction to a 2011 English translation of “Briefe an einen jungen Dichter” (“Letters to a Young Poet”) Poetry is complicated, because human beings are complicated.

Springfield author Jo Van Arkel muses on the ability of words to "reach toward something that can't be easily explained." ...

As Qixi Festival, often called China's Valentine's Day, approaches, the stars appear not merely as celestial bodies, but as ...

Love is not an emotion (though it kicks up a lot of emotions); it is a motivational state — a desire to be close to and serve ...

Urdu poetry is often described as the language of the heart--a deeply expressive medium through which love, longing, and loss are delicately explored. It blends elegance and intensity, articulating ...

The pop star is engaged to Travis Kelce and getting the fairytale romance she's been writing about in these love songs.

In this workshop, you can explore poetic forms from three different continents, dive into example poems, and enjoy quiet writing time to craft our own responses to inspiring prompts.

A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with thousands of people saying how much comfort it had brought them.