Back in January, in honor of Valentine's Day, Morning Edition announced a love poem request line: Send us your memories of love and relationships, and author Kwame Alexander will find a poem that ...

How do people deal with traumas and painful memories? For Gregory Orr, one of our most esteemed lyric poets, the answer is to embrace language and to grow “through this/ Deepening I didn’t choose.” He ...

Cities are almost like characters in the films of director Jim Jarmusch — think of New Orleans in 1986's Down By Law, or Memphis in 1989's Mystery Train. In his latest film, Paterson, Jarmusch takes ...

I love you like ladybugs love windowsills, love you like sperm whales love squid. There’s no depth I wouldn’t follow you through. I love you like the pawns in chess love aristocratic horses. I’ll ...

Option 2: Assign the research homework assignment during the previous class period. Give each student the list of Dating Violence Information Web sites, which includes a list of the following topics ...

I’m intrigued by the tension in Jake Skeet’s poem: Its title juxtaposes love with death, and its rhythms press against the nettle-like images. The first stanza’s images are scarred and rough with ...

Charlie Chaplin was an actor, director, composer, and according to a persistent internet rumor, the author of a poem entitled, "As I Began to Love Myself": As I began to love myself I found that ...