which focuses on a sex worker yearning for true love, does not share many common themes with the short story. However, Harvey does borrow a few lyrics from Salinger’s work. Namely, the lines, “Rose is ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

You have to love a poem that's short and sweet, and that's exactly what you'll get with this little ditty by Emma Walsh. The poem appears on the We Are Teachers website, and it's perfect for ...

You do not need a lot of words to convey your feelings to your partner. These short love messages to melt her heart will enable you to express your feelings to your ...

Michael Longley is a master of his craft, known for his compact, meditative lyrics that explore themes of love, violence, ...

A Veterinarian’s Soothing Compassion, in “The Passing” The documentary short by Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas follows Michael Mullen on his rounds attending to pets and their owners.

“This poem, shaped similarly to a newspaper obituary, houses multiple griefs. Here, the grief is micro and macro, personal and cultural. Addressed to a deceased grandmother, the poem is a way to ...

He really liked this girl in their school, he said, and wanted to write her a love letter ... A Verse Romance, brings 208 short poems together in a single poetic narrative.

As with his body, so with his poem. In his clever, wide-ranging book, Orlando Reade shows how Milton’s great epic has been ...

Eros and the Lyric Imagination: Poems of Love Marilyn Hacker discusses eros as the “fuel of the lyric imagination” and discusses a selection of lyric poems featuring and fueled by eros. Reginald ...