Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson into a posthumous fame only more accentuated by the utterly recluse character of her life and by ...

I know I can always escape into novels by P.G. Wodehouse and Patrick O’Brian and find strength in biographies of past leaders ...

In poet Fady Joudah’s sixth collection, […], the titular poem includes the line ... This space and the silence it represents ...

“Numb” is one of Linkin Park’s most famous singles, and one of the more successful hard rock cuts of the past several decades. Now, it returns to four different tallies in the U.K., as ...

Poetry is known to draw from a place of truth ... The car wrapped around two oaks, and left her paralyzed, numb from the ...

I’ve spent the past few days in alternating states of shock, numb acceptance, anger, grief, and, above all else, exhaustion.

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but ...

What I love about poetry is that you can perform it anywhere. There are performances spaces all around us. In the bedroom. In the playground. I ….was…. at…. the ...

In elementary school, when for Father’s Day we would make construction paper ties with dorky poems on the back ... The wound is entirely numb, if it ever was a wound at all.