Valentine's Day has been linked to a 12th-century poem about birds mating, the Christian-martyr-turned-Saint Valentine and a ...

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

The 40-year-old Downtown library dedicated to poetry and acts of poetry reopened a year ago after a pandemic and a flood.

I’ve been having flashes of memories from way back in the day lately. I don’t know why. Memory and nostalgia are partners in ...

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When we met, I was a 20-year-old girl with a desperate desire to be loved. Mark was a 30-year-old bartender with a penchant ...

With a stable line-up since the beginning, Sweden's Grand Magus have been staunch defenders of the faith for over 25 years ...

The pressing need for teachers like me isn't to deliver more facts but to cultivate creativity, problem-solving, and critical ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." This classic Ferris Bueller ...