At the Jaipur Literature Festival, 2025, conversations revolved around the urgent question: in the time of climate change and ...

Try shifting your focus and learn how minor adjustments can lead to major improvements, says columnist-Vigorito.

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 winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war – and why the peace process is far from over. By Michael Longley Editor’s note: this piece was ...

Hospital chaplains help patients and families, whether religious, atheist, agnostic, or "nothing in particular," find meaning, connection, and hope. Yet, they are often ignored.

Instead of trying to break down the art of naming a child, let’s try something different and use art as inspiration for the baby name.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

On the first bead of each decade is said the Our Father, on the second the Hail Mary, and on the third the Glory be to the Father. At the end of this sequence, the following poem-prayer is recited. If ...

Art reaches people in ways that other art forms don’t necessarily. A poem can’t jump out at you from a wall. I’m lucky in that I love art galleries and have always spent a lot of time ...

By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include ... this quote from Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art”: “The world is not the mere collection of ...