I didn’t live through the Christmas of 1929, but growing up in Nogales, the border was always there—constant, imposing, ...

Born in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe had a profound impact on American and international literature as an editor, poet, and critic.

And the villages dirty and charging high prices: A hard time we had of it. At the end we preferred to travel all night, Born in Missouri on September 26, 1888, T. S. Eliot is the author of The Waste ...

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Lesson Plans & Resources Thanksgiving with Richard Blanco’s “América” In his poem "América," Richard Blanco brings us into the experience of Thanksgiving celebrated by an extended Cuban American ...

Sleep, little Baby, sleep; The holy Angels love thee, And guard thy bed, and keep A blessed watch above thee. No spirit can come near Nor evil beast to harm thee: Sleep, Sweet, devoid of fear Where ...

Twenty-twenty was a perfect year to do just that.” ...

But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf.

To risk your heart for a dog to tear. When the fourteen years which Nature permits But… you’ve given your heart to a dog to tear. When the body that lived at your single will, With its whimper of ...