Turn on those sad songs, eat your ice cream, and read some of theses poems to help ease the pain. Falling in love can be one of the most beautiful things — many people say love makes the world go ...
Queerty: The unspoken cry: WJ Lofton on love, queerness, & the subtle power of his poetry book ‘boy, maybe’
Born in Chicago and raised in Alabama, WJ Lofton’s creative work breathes life into the intricacies of identity, race, grief, masculinity, and love. His latest poetry collection, boy, maybe, doesn’t ...
The unspoken cry: WJ Lofton on love, queerness, & the subtle power of his poetry book ‘boy, maybe’
The Michigan Daily: Marge Piercy’s frank new poetry on love, death and Trump
Marge Piercy’s newest poetry collection, “On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light” is a meditation on love, loss, sex, religion, politics and family. Her poetry is unfailingly personal and it is clear that ...
This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.
Love has always found its purest expression in poetry. Through verses, we capture emotions that sometimes words alone cannot describe—the heartbeat of affection, the sweetness of intimacy, and the ...
The Stanford Daily: ‘Sad girl poetry’ and the gendered political madness of 2024
In her column “Brutal Monsters,” Cate Burtner ’25 offers commentary on the literature of mental illness. I have always thought the term ‘sad girl poetry’ was condescending. ‘Sad’ feels overly ...