This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

Dear Abby advises a person who is having an issue setting boundaries with a friend who expects a favor for a favor.

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Lily Krueger, a senior at Core Butte Charter, won first place in the Butte County Poetry-Out-Loud competition with powerful ...

Greatness begins with bold dreams by leaders who are ready to share through compelling stories and eager reinforce through congruent personal actions.

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Student Mason Allen climbed the equivalent of Mount Everest on a unicycle, completing the grueling ascent near UVA’s ...

Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...

William Ernest Henley's work has inspired world leaders, royalty and even a Hollywood movie. Best known for writing the poem ...

A poet, raised among refugees in New York's Washington Heights, confronts the ghosts that inhabited his childhood.

For ten years, Shadowbox Studio, an offbeat space owned by Jim Haverkamp and Alex Maness, has been an intimate home to the ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...