Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

The gathering near Birchmore's apartment in Canton was organized by Justice for Sandra Birchmore, a Facebook group with ...

The father of an old, estranged fiancé of mine once asked me why I raised our daughters Catholic. The implication was that ...

From the mythology of Gráinne and Diarmuid to the poetry of Yeats and the songs of Van the Man, Ireland has long celebrated ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales took to social media on Saturday to share a personal message, which also revealed that the pair would be spending their weekend celebrating Burns Night.

Perhaps most recognizable as a Hawaiian hello, Aloha has a far deeper meaning: "love." The word is used in many contexts to ...

With his body language hinting that he’s getting one vision after another, soothsayer Thomas Nostradamus tells struggling Renaissance playwright Nick Bottom about a successful play he believes he can ...

Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882. David J Black reminds us just how famous Burns was. See part one ...

William Basque, right, with his father Isaac, centre, and brother Bryan/Photo contributed. After it was first written 27 years ago, the poem, Sma’knis by William Basque, has become a part of most ...

Feb. 6-23, on Octagon Stage. Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, ...

Grace and her father rowed across stormy seas to ... In 1843, the poet William Wordsworth wrote a poem called ‘Grace Darling’ about her rescue. Grace Darling died 4 years later, aged only ...