Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Jerry Butler, the beloved Chicago soul singer, producer and, later, politician who began his career in the late 1950 singing alongside childhood friend Curtis Mayfield in the Impressions, has died at ...

Always have a person in your life with whom you can share all your secrets' For me, you were that person, dadi ...

At 24, my love life was missing some magic. So I decided to shoot my shot with the It Boy of second grade.

Many suspected 'Puff The Magic Dragon' to be subtly about smoking marijuana, but the writer insisted it was just a tale about innocence lost.

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

When Jan Thom came across the post from her home in Michigan — her childhood friend tagged in the post and among the posse that climbed — she decided Pikes Peak would commence her “get busy ...

High and low cultural references – one poem references Gauguin’s Christ and the Velvet Underground within a few clauses – are blended with childhood memories into thrilling, emotional payoffs.

That is how civilizations heal,” a friend told a despondent Toni Morrison ... that is probably the most fully autobiographical of the poems in the book and gives some idea of my own childhood, which ...

But after writing poems with a close friend who went missing during the dictatorship, he was inspired to publish his first work. "At the age of 18, we self-published a book of both our poems with ...