My dear friend David, a prolific writer, wrote a funny poem recently about half lives that made me rethink my own thoughts about birthdays. About how when we’re kids, we’re always rounding up to seem ...
The old crowd knew their place. Don’t say a word. Quick now. The table’s free. Good evening, ladies. Do ignore us. Thank you. Sean O'Brien's most recent collection of poems, Embark ...
Still, it’s hard not to feel slighted when her poem listed out the names of every single member in team A, and not once mentioned the people in team B. All her other gestures addressed ... has hired ...
Some people can't wait to say goodbye to their jobs and get started enjoying their free time, and others would work forever if they could. No matter what someone feels, it's a major life change, and ...
In the '90s rom-com French Kiss, Meg Ryan's character Kate humorously offers up the details of her devirginization at 18 years old with a jock named Jeff. The experience apparently included a basement ...
As an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys pursue sex ... Alan Bennett’s play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult ...
For my part, I’ve inherited these heroic, epic ‘herstories,’ and through frontline resistance I’ve carried these stories, told through poetry and legal briefs, to world courts. This poem gives a ...
Taylor Hill/Getty ; Disney/Marvel Martha Stewart Hates That She Looks Like 'a Lonely Old Lady' in New Netflix Doc: 'It Was Just Shocking' “And you want to know something? He’s not so funny in ...
The First World War inspired profound poetry, words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle were evoked perhaps more vividly than ever before. The First World War poets – many of whom lost ...