The Yakima Coffeehouse Poets, a nonprofit formed in 2014 to represent the interests of poets and poetry lovers in Central Washington, is the organization behind this monthly poetry column, which ...

Poem of the Day: ‘Christmas Bells’ As the bells ring out for Christmas Day, 1863, the terrible year when the American Civil War looked endless, the poem’s speaker contemplates the inviolable beauty of ...

The Standing Together in Times of Crisis service was attended by local residents, church leaders, city and state officials, historian Neal Graffy and Santa Barbara Poet Laureate George Yatchisin.

THERE is something both familiar and strange about the sound of church bells: familiar, for the sound of the peal is immemorial, a sound we have heard all our lives and that has been heard in this ...

Religion 04/03/2022 Often hidden from view, but impossible to ignore, church bells ring out from towering belfries. For centuries they have given a rhythm to human activity.

In all seriousness, we naturally recognize that the Russian Church’s claim to the Danilov Bells contains more than a measure of legitimacy. Nevertheless, there is something irresistibly comic in ...

Images of church bells in nineteenth-century French poetry reflect the history of bells after the French Revolution, as told by Alain Corbin. Once a "sign" of locality, they become a symbol of ...

Opening with church bells, the poem sings of a Russian village, Smiela, where as a boy Loeffler heard “Russian peasant songs, the Yonrod’s Litany-prayer, fairy tales and dance songs.” ...