Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Text over a blue, textured background reads, "That shall drink deeply at a century’s streams; These lilies shall make summer on ...

in places she’d rather not name, how her skin there felt more like leather. she already knew what she knew. Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: “Woman in the Painting,” ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at St. Gregory's High School. I didn't know him personally, as I did several of ...

Southerners know that beauty isn’t about looks. You don’t find it in glancing at someone, but in talking to them, connecting with them, understanding them, and comprehending what they love and the ...

Laura Kasischke's prose poem "Look," from Space, in Chains, opens, "Look! I bear into this room a platter piled high with the rage my mother felt for my father!" The brooding agency of that anger ...

Ex-New York cab driver Lee Stockdale wins £5,000 after My Dead Father’s General Store in the Middle of a Desert beat 17,000 other poems A poem of “beauty, wit and grace” that explores an encounter ...

Caroline Kennedy's selection of poems, "She Walks in Beauty," is surprising for many reasons. But the success of the book — which is No. 6 on the independent booksellers list — isn't one of them.

The title of this week's poem, "The Line of Beauty" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, will be familiar to many readers as the title of the fine novel by Alan Hollinghurst, which won the Booker prize in 2004.

Eek! Bad news in from Dove, the cosmetics company has found that only 1% of women describe themselves as beautiful. What the..? Dove found that 54% of us gals globally agree that when it comes to how ...