Nicole “Nic” Jean Turner has been selected as Worcester’s next poet laureate. Samara Tang-Rainwater will serve as the youth ...

With the Danish postal service ending its letter deliveries, we asked what you would put in your final envelope ...

What does it mean to lead with hope when trust is shaken and the future feels uncertain? A leadership perspective on hope as ...

It’s to Gov. Tim Walz’s credit that he hasn’t arbitrarily found someone to fire as a way to salvage his political career. In ...

In the future, Britain is partly submerged by rising seas. What do people remember of the past? NPR's Scott Simon talks to author Ian McEwan about his novel, "What We Can Know." ...

A couple of years ago, Sunil Sarath Perera published a collection of essays titled ‘Mathaka Nimnaya,’ or ‘The valley of ...

Thanks to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Piet Levy for sharing details behind the story for Milwaukee-based movie 'Song Sung ...

Jason Kuhl, the library system's chief executive director, introduced Waugh to library patrons in the November 2025 issue of ...

As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John Donne” and goes on to refer to Kahlil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman and ...

Photos by Don Nelson From left, competitors in the 2025 Poetry Out Loud contest at The Merc Playhouse last week were Liam ...

Pennington resident Patricia Smith has won the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry for Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...