As an adult, I’ve come back to poetry time again when I found my own feelings too big to name or explain without help, writes ...

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud. “Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to ...

In Jan Donley’s class at Berklee, her students study literature that centers on loss. Loss can make us sad, but it can also help us heal, Donley writes. In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, ...

Get this: life expectancy has apparently hit its peak. According to msn.com, a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging finds that, barring any major medical breakthroughs, “people will top ...

Poetry lovers who crave Shakespearean-style sonnets and rhyming iambic pentameter have a new collection to pick up for their reading pleasure: Last Night in Eden by J. Harold Ryder. A sincere and ...

Jeffrey Foucault had the late British poet Basil Bunting’s Advice to Young Poets tacked up on his desk and followed most of its treads, such as “Compose aloud” and “Put your poem away till ... several ...

The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

since it doesn’t work, why not try healing? because if physical pain is an appropriate remedy, you might as well give every ...

If I Must Die' compiles poems, excerpts of blogs, lectures and interviews as a celebration of Refaat Alareer’s legacy and ...

Below, we're taking a look at 60 Rock Songs Inspired by Books and Literature, for the most part limiting it to one entry per ...

Nothing could prepare me for the reality of losing my father, Leon Levinsky—a man whose life was devoted to mending hearts, ...

You can use a statement of death or a death certificate as proof of death. The statement of death is sufficient in most situations to notify the federal government of a death. A death certificate is ...