It’s the end of an era. So the ones who will remember will remember death on TV, the noiseless way screens make everything present, Sunday, morning. A parliament of witches cycles past ...
Ephriam David Tyler, the namesake of Ephriam in the Old Testament, became a deacon at Evergreen Baptist Church and a member of Israel Lodge No. 138. And by the time he died in 1969, he had secured a ...
“Alexandra Leaving” is partly based on a poem called “The God Abandons Antony,” which was written by Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy and first published in 1911.
According to the Nebraska State Historical Society, Nebraska became the first state to choose a state poet laureate in 1921 when the Legislature named John Neihardt to fill the ro ...
Jazz Jennings celebrated her astrological sign—and showed off her progress after recently losing 100 pounds— by sharing a set of whimsical photos and a poem she wrote about what it's like to be a ...
Columnist's note: This is a modified version of my essay "Mainstreaming Violence Against Women and Children in Marjorie Evasco's 'Caravan of the Waterbearers'" in Rhizomes and Rhythms, an ...