I was looking for an autumn poem, maybe a Thanksgiving poem, and this one landed in my lap. Only a mention of autumn but full of thanksgiving. Billy Collins’ poems ...

Move aside, Maya Angelou — there's a new poet in town. Poems & Prayers is collection of personal poetry and prayers from the Academy Award–winning actor, which touches on faith, fatherhood, marriage, ...

In This Could Be a Love Poem for You, her fourth collection of verse, Ranu Uniyal offers a powerful poetic account of her wrestling with the profound sense of loss that pervades her everyday existence ...

“[c]learly Rosy had to go or be put in her place.... The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was in another person’s lab.” —James D. Watson, The Double Helix (1968) I am the ...

Lorenz Hart was Richard Rogers’ first writing partner in the 1920s and ’30s. They worked together for half a century. Hart was born in New York and believe it or not, was a dwarf, a little person as ...

R.P. Smith waits to take the stage on March 9, 2018, at the Merryman Performing Arts Center in Kearney, Nebraska. R.P. Smith steps out of his home on his ranch near Broken Bow, Nebraska. “I’m a better ...

A collection of poetry by Maltese author Leanne Ellul has been translated into Italian and is now available across the peninsula. Originally published by Merlin Publishers, Ellul’s L-Inventarju ...

I’ll pick a short one – Catullus. Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. My favourite translation is by Peter Whigham. It takes a bit of licence with ...

This essay is part a series by Father Stayer, a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, reflecting on essential works of writing, art and music. In his weekly interview with writers, Scott ...

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