An interviewer recently asked Lady Gaga to reply to the accusation that she was doing just that with “Abracadabra,” her new ...

The Nobel Prize-winning poet was a renowned defender of humanitarian causes through much of the 20th century. Yet he had no time or interest for Malva Marina, his only child, who was born with ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including 'Blood Knot,' 'Boesman and Lena,' 'A Lesson From Aloes' and 'My Children!

Sarah Lowe had one of her daughter's poems printed on the back of the bookmark that was distributed at the girl's funeral ...

What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

Phyllis Schwartz. Courtesy photo Encinitas mother Phyllis Schwartz recently unveiled her third children’s book, “Laggie and Grillo: An Unlikely ...

Mohamed Hadid, proud dad of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, is opening up about the advice he shared with his daughters as ...

The Sunnyvale Library is hosting Silicon Valley Reads events this month for visual artists, teen poets and kids who are into ...

Announcing the 18th annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge on Writer's Digest. Here are the guidelines for this fun annual poeming ...

For many educators, it’s panic time again, following the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the “Nation’s Report Card,” as it has been labeled by the people who are ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

I felt the deep, deep silence of the night, and of peace, and of holiness enfold me like love, like safety.” –Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, 1948 My little sister Christine died in 2020.