How Mickiewicz’s Orientalising poem written in frosty Saint Petersburg galloped off to the Bedouin desert – and from there, ...

Once upon a time, many years ago, a young woman pressed her senior prom corsage in a book of Shakespearean love poems. She ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

A coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino chronicles how Teenage Elio grows fond of Oliver, his ...

Between breadcrumbing, cushioning and situationships, the language of romance seems to be lost in translation. Where has the ...

The Center for Creativity celebrated queer horror this Wednesday with the workshop “Everybody Has a Secret Face: Queer Horror ...

Li Shaojun, editor of the book, said that poetry is a universal language of humanity, expressing shared human emotions. "The ...

We planned to meet at Urbana’s Caffé Paradiso, but with Paradiso’s truncated summer hours, we ended up a block away at Caffé ...

With good books, you recommend titles to your friends; with great ones, you stop friends in hallways to read passages aloud.

Poetry became a way to navigate and explore ... In this form, one can seamlessly move from addressing a romantic beloved in one couplet to mourning a lost loved one in the next, without altering ...

When I think about the young woman from Virginia pressing her prom corsage in a book of poetry, I’m happy I can pass on her romantic notions.