Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, will be the Transylvania County Library’s fall 2025 J.R. McDowell ...

Ipswich spend mega bucks to ensure they have an excellent playing surface. Blackburn have a semi swamp so that they can counteract a better team. In fairness, fine Blackburn for the unplayable pitch ...

Michael Oren, the American-born historian, writer, and former Israeli diplomat, writes a Substack called Clarity, one of the few blogs I read not just for its insights but for the fluency with which ...

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Langston Hughes poem with the lines They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a ...

When David Harrison originally asked me to write my first column for “Poetry from Daily Life,” I spoke of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: he draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Bob Stephens, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. This is Bob’s second column in the series. His first appeared on Jan. 14, 2024. He is a man of many ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Washington: The US Congress has obtained a batch of documents from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including a cryptic ...

Creative writing often takes a backseat in schools—confined mostly to ELA classrooms, and even there, used sparingly. But teachers like Ariel Sacks, a middle school teacher, author, and instructional ...

I don’t love being stoned, but I love being stoned in museums. Cannabis makes me quiet and uncertain, or chatty and self-conscious, which winds back to quiet and uncertain. Alone in a museum, however, ...