If you have ever been in the enviable position of considering the difference between happiness and joy, you might find yourself nodding when the latter is characterized as being wilder and more ...

William Butler Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is about the allure of an imagined refuge. The poem’s distressed urban speaker fantasizes about fleeing the city and retreating to an idyllic Irish ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Finally tonight: some words to celebrate what millions will be doing tomorrow, gathering around the table to eat, talk, give thanks, and be together. They come from poet Joy Harjo, a member of the ...

For a man who was told he’d never be successful, my friend William Sherrill has done well. He’s not rich or famous. He doesn’t head an important company or have a mansion on a hill. He is an Air Force ...

CIARAN CARSON is one of the most accomplished among the astonishing number of formidable poets who have issued from Ulster over the last three generations. In his elegy on the death of Yeats, Auden ...

In the church where I was raised, adults made a sharp distinction between joy and happiness. Happiness felt good, but it was temporary, and because it was temporary, there was something about it not ...

If I were to choose one word to describe this story it would the word joy. Joy because at every turn, I witnessed joy. Edna Bishop’s laugh -- joyful. The dresses she makes, her creations, are bringing ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s ...