Syracuse, N.Y. – Angela Short walked into a Syracuse courtroom Friday holding a white marble box containing her teen daughter ...

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, ...

Did you make it? Tell me, Love, are you in the quiet yet?

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 ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

Fifth annual gathering explored the great Canadian singer and writer's motifs of love and brokenness after very hard week.

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison describes something unexpected he found after checking into a room with a fly in it.

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

To do any less was to lose the cruel game of oblivion; and I, Yves, death cheater, was never to be defeated. How impudent I was, then, to believe that I was smarter than death. That She could be ...

"The next time you bring up my dead brother and my son again, you are going to see what I'm going to do to you and I'm going to have to ... live with the consequences," Embiid said to Hayes.

Even though the festival is called the Day of the Dead, it is truly a celebration of life as it reinforces the idea that life is short and young children should not fear death. Day of the Dead ...