Thomas Hardy’s marriage to Emma Gifford went from romantic to estranged, and yet he was grief-stricken when she died.

As I sat at my desk last weekend, significant events of Aprils past came to mind. “On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five,” Longfellow wrote, “Hardly a man is now alive/ Who remembers that famous ...

But my father, all my life, had been reciting me poetry. He started with Cyrano and Woodsworth. I remember the first lines of verse he ever ... You say the light went out in your dad's soul.

An improving landlord in the Outer Hebrides created a remote Georgian house that has just undergone a stylish, but ...

Plato, the most intelligent of Socrates’ students, laid the foundations of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, and ...

These records serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, ...

The melodic hook in the chorus (which could just as easily have come from an old Supremes record) and the verse hook (“Love ... Thing” would be the prime example, a song so primitive that ...

Five writers offer a collection of poetry to welcome spring and, with it, light and hope during uncertain times.

Betraying Millennial Women: In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, ...

Every Wednesday night, the Boston Poetry Slam takes over Cantab’s basement for its flagship event: a show entirely devoted to ...

The following are the winning poems from the 2025 Nature in Verse Poetry Contest, held by Seymour Library in partnership with the Friends of Seymour Library and The Resting Soul.