Poem: Four kinds of emptiness ...

Thinking about these themes in our own lives can help us identify how loneliness affects us.

When scientists claim "15% of French citizens are lonely," can we trust it? Our measurement tools for psychological ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Martha Davis and The Motels finally broke through, but "Only The Lonely" proved that success doesn't necessarily equate to happiness.

When my father was living his last years in a nursing facility, there was a woman there who spoke no English. I don’t know ...

These trends coincided with the surgeon general's 2023 declaration of a loneliness epidemic, leading to recent claims that ...

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

Corey Van Landingham, a graduate of Purdue's creative writing MFA program has published three poetry collections. Her third, "Reader, I," explores the nuances of romantic relationships in conversation ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?