It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute ...

I was amazed to go with her to plays and see how she could write furious notes in the dark and be able to read them at the ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Recent weeks have highlighted the passing of time with three successive occurences that either merited my attention or ...

Dickinson’s passion for gardening — and growing flowers in particular — remained a constant throughout her life ... Emily Dickinson,” Judith Farr demonstrates that Dickinson’s poetry ...

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Walter Bargen ... into the world and embrace it in new and surprising ways. Emily Dickinson wrote that “My business is circumference.” ...

Watch the celebrated actress recite Maria Woodford’s ‘elegy for a nissan micra’ which came out on top in this year’s time-themed contest ...

The essayist playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of ...

On experimenting in Stone Yard Devotional with how far she could go in making a story that depends on stillness and silence and yet shimmers with energetic force ...

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift the ...

Hope is the thing with feathers’ is a poem by Emily Dickinson; ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’ is a flighty, wonderful ...

Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us ...