My mother used to say “beauty is pain.” She chanted the phrase as she combed knots out of my tender head while I writhed in pain between her thighs. Years later, I repeated that same mantra to myself ...

Yehuda Amichai, a world renowned poet and one of Israel’s most famous writers, has died of cancer at the age of 76. Amichai, who died last Friday, was known for blending modern ideas with ancient ...

What do zinnias, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Hayden have in common? More than you’d think — and it’s helping me make sense of ...

We tend to think of John Keats as, in Lucasta Miller’s provocative phrase, “the most romantic of the Romantic poets.” He’s the pure soul—so the legend goes—who died at only 25, penniless, passionately ...

"Ek tarfa pyaar ki taqat hi kuch aur hoti hai… auron ke rishton ki tarah yeh do logon mein nahi bat’ti … sirf mera haq hai ...