The Poem That Captures Your Soul, Based on Birth Month

August-borns are full of confident pride and self-renewal. Angelou's poem mirrors your strong soul, whether you're a ...
The New York Times

Poem: On Jasmine

Verity Spott’s “On Jasmine” gathers its energy, as a storm does, until ordinary acts assume extraordinary proportions. The poem operates by a kind of fairy logic: mesmerizing, oneiric, enchanted, with ...
The Conversation

Stoicism on Tiktok promises happiness – but the ancient philosophers who came up with it had something very different in mind

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New York Sun

Poem of the Day: ‘A Riddle on the Letter H’

Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834) was widely known in literary society — and yet nearly unpublished in her lifetime. The daughter and heiress of a courtier in the household of King George III, she ...