We’ve reached the first checkpoint of the Lancaster-Lebanon League girls basketball season. The holiday break.  Some of the ...

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

On Christmas day, 1863, the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat at his desk in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...

Former Republican senator Ben Sasse's letter announcing his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis moves readers with its grace ...

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

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was conceived for a purely Scrooge-like reason — to make money. Thankfully, its creator saw the Montgomery Ward marketing campaign as an opportunity to be as bold in his ...

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

Retried EKU professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton launched a non-profit call Why We Write, and helped compile the poems for 'A ...

The Montmartre flat where one of the most important French poets lived is threatened by a project to extend the adjoining ...

I was present at the opening of the Demerara Harbour Bridge in 1978. This bridge, with a few mishaps, has served us well. As a slightly recognised poet, I am motivated to write a poem honouring this ...

Celebrities often forget that being famed for one talent doesn't guarantee you're good at everything - but it's not stopped them from expressing their most profound thoughts through the medium of ...

Journalist Ryan Lizza claimed he learned the meaning off a sexual slang term from a poem written by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Lizza’s ex-fiance, Olivia Nuzzi. In a ...