Margarita B. Montalvo Margarita B. Montalvo, beloved wife, mother, aunt, sister, cousin, and friend, died peacefully January, 2025, at home with family and friends. She was surrounded by music and ...

I recently realised that I’d been brainwashed by Valentine’s Day and the garish gift-giving that is splattered all over ...

This year, the world's biggest happiness study will see 30,000 volunteers try different joy-boosting activities, to find out ...

Ready to give new voices a chance to fill the role she’s held for a decade, Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen is resigning. Sutphen, 71, is the state’s second poet laureate, ...

Years ago, Chanie Gorkin, a then 17-year-old girl from New York, wrote a poem entitled: “Worst Day Ever.” It was for an assignment at school. “It took me a few hours to write,” Gorkin said. “I was ...

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The caption read, “Celebrating the beauty of Scotland, the power of nature, and the poetry of Robert Burns. Happy Burns Night ...

I often think about my high-school self: avid lover of Holly Warburton paintings and musical theater, writer of prose and poetry and a girl with a rebellious streak convinced, in true teenager fashion ...

An elderly Palestinian man died on the journey home, while another, overcome with joy, ululated, clapped, and sang.

No free verse for us. But, oh, I am so happy that I can choose to pray with poetry now, and that I live among people who encourage such things. It’s another way to do good in this world.

I fought a relentless battle with shame, fear, anger, denial - all these things that are the opposite of happy. There were grey ... me thrashing in my sleep. I am privileged.