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Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war ...
Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.
Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you.
This is the largest of four spontaneous roadside memorials, stretching several hundred feet along the northern fence of John ...
At the Clark on Saturday, May 3, Compagnia de’ Colombari will screen seven short films, as part of the nationwide "Whitman on ...
The word love is elusive, a noun without context. However, its verb form, "loving," is more than the thing. It invokes poetry ...
For 20 years, teens from around the country have come to Washington, D.C. to compete in the national Poetry Out Loud finals.
Excited for The Winds of Winter? Us too – but we probably have a bit of a wait ahead of us...George R.R. Martin's A Song of ...
The huckleberry pie, when in season, is particularly transcendent – a purple-blue symphony of wild flavor that can only be described as the essence of Oregon forest distilled into dessert form.
From ancient tales of mythical heroes to modern-day stories of bravery and sacrifice, the idea of heroism continues to captivate the human imagination. It is through acts of heroism that we witness ...
As a blogger and columnist, I’ve spent years presenting humanity in all its glory and gory. From the haloed heights of kindness to the potholes of petty behaviour, I’ve chronicled it all: the good, ...