Meryl Streep’s daughter—is pregnant and expecting her second baby with husband Mark Ronson, confirming the news by baring her ...

Every year, my family and I take a trip to Mount Rainier. This time, I was taking oral chemotherapy medication, and our ...

I had a column titled Poems by Heart. The column drew responses from many readers, which I will publish in due course. (Thank ...

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Seven Days publisher and editor-in-chief Paula Routly shares writing advice from her first editor, Josh Mamis. Decades later, it's more relevant than ever.

As if a world of concrete things were to be gathered into the titular abstraction; or as if Kipling's rightness were presently to be proved remarkable in that it is all wrong. And yet, I think, ...

A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then ...

At a time when fundamental questions are being posed about medical science, writes Jennifer Handt, let us not forget the beauty of it, the existential poetry and shared humanity that drives us toward ...

He allows them to live, concluding: “Someone is watching me, for sure… and has decided not to step on me ... to “honour the power of poetry and forget that hinterland where you lived ...

We’ve chosen a selection of our favourite Christmas poetry, from funny Christmas poems, to moving festive verses and some Christmas poems for kids, all perfect for reading by the fire over the festive ...

Samantha Ruth Prabhu shared a poem on her Instagram feed, stating that it helped her thrive during the toughest times in her life. The actress quoted a few lines from Rudyard Kipling’s most ...