The poems draw on the bewilderment of hindsight and advancing age, with Padgett ruefully admitting: “I saw that my heroes / had been ... Padgett recalls his late friend, painter and vanguard ...

On the surface, it seemed like any ordinary friendship. But Joyce wasn't just a friend; she was my grandmother's closest friend. When our relationship began, she was 80, and I was 25. Our age gap ...

31. “You are my sunshine on a rainy day.” 32. “A best friend is like a favorite song—no matter how many times you hear it, you never get tired of it.” 33. “You make my world brighter j ...

You can ask rediffGURU Anu Krishna your questions HERE. Anonymous: Anu, I am in love with my son's best friend. I know it sounds a bit weird. But technically he is my son's colleague. I was 19 ...

Sonequa Martin-Green does memorable work as Merit, who avoids dealing with the past by imagining her BFF is still present.

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

I just visited my 62-year-old friend in the hospital and am dumbfounded. Last July, he fell stacking logs at his house and injured his back. He went to the emergency room, where he was told to ...

Revered Black queer poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s literary works have finally returned to print in a newly released ...

There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers ...

She sent her old friend a voice message, and after years of silence, the pair began repairing their friendship, Ms. Rumble said. Friendships are vital to our health, the research shows ...

He has the ability to freeze water and create ice. If he were my best friend, he would be my private air conditioner during summer. He could cool me down after an exhausting PE lesson, for example.