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Frank Stanford, who killed himself at age 29, died far too young. Thanks to writer James McWilliams, the legendary Arkansas poet's short but colorful life is now documented in a monumental biography.
The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.
How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.
It was September 2012 when Brad Squires and Anita Moran decided to cap off their impromptu romantic picnic on Canada’s Bell Island by flinging a bottle containing a handwritten note about their day ...
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The Dispatch on MSNCan Americans Love Poetry Again?Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...
‘The Missing Prayer’: Personal tragedies in poems evoke painful histories of the Indian subcontinent
The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...
The note was "like a little secret," said one of the people who opened it, "but now it has brought so much joy to so many ...
Anuoluwapo Ogunmoroti, a creative and multi-talented Mass Communication graduate of the University of Lagos, a content ...
In today’s Gospel we are treated to the familiar story of the good Samaritan who is held up as a model for us to imitate.
Sometimes, we don’t love the person who loves us. Ancient Greeks and Romans also had a lot to say about this subject.
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