On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...
And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...
The Indian and Irish traditions share a poetic and mystical sensibility, demonstrating that the pursuit of spiritual wisdom and artistic expression knows no boundaries.
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for ...
The Shark Nursery' is a one-of-a-kind book, filled with achingly beautiful poems that show a true artist at her absolute peak ...
An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...
A “wonderfully dark and dreamy” show for young audiences is coming to the National Opera House later this month courtesy of ...
"They paved paradise, put up a parking lot." That iconic line from Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” remains timeless because there never seems to be a shortage of nature or culture flattened by greed ...
WB Yeats's famous poem "Easter 1916" gives the rebellion a literary expression that transcends political and geographical boundaries. Through the uprising, the Irish rebels took the British ...
Jean Stimmell is a retired stone mason and psychotherapist living in Northwood. He blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com and ...