This week Page-Turner is publishing a series on Walt Whitman. Previously, Jia Tolentino wrote about an unusual use of Whitman’s poetry at a drug court in Alabama, and Dan Piepenbring wrote on ...

frost, a star edges with its fire. About this Poem "Sea Violet" was published in H. D.'s book "Sea Garden" (Houghton Mifflin, 1916). About H. D. Hilda Doolittle was born on September 10, 1886, in ...

Though a wide expanse of ocean separates Plymouth in New England from Plymouth in England, the two communities are forever linked through the common bond of destiny. Nearly 400 years ago, the Pilgrims ...

Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Julia Schroers, a 14-year-old student from Guilford, CT. You ...

No man shall come near to any of his close relatives, to uncover [their] nakedness. I am the Lord. ~ Leviticus 18:6 There are plenty of fish in the sea but not all of them are available to you. Not ...

We asked poet Craig Morgan Teicher to find a poem to illuminate a recent news event. He says the capsized boat in the Mediterranean Sea made him think of Derek Mahon's "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford." ...