When life’s tempests overwhelm the heart, what enables us to endure? How do we keep going? The 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson addressed this question in a poem called “‘Hope’ is the thing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the FTWeekend Festival on September 5, in a session called “How the Light Gets In: Poetry of Hope and ...

Along dozens of businesses in Arlington Heights, hopeful poems detailing perseverance, hope, history, passion and community strength have been painted on storefronts to inspire the community to shop ...

Her verse examined social history through individual lives, including her own, in which she later found love. Yet for all the admiration she inspired, she was unheralded. By Margalit Fox Naomi ...