Ahead of the start of the Year of the Book, former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves appeared on the ETV2 show "Plekktrumm," to ...

In the third edition of his column exploring the new wave of boundary-pushing folk and traditional music, Patrick Clarke delves into music's role in our intimate relationship with place, and rounds up ...

Rita Dove is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. As the youngest person to serve as Poet Laureate of the United States and the recipient of numerous accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize ...

Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels, essays, devotionals ... I'll let no lightning kill your room's white order. Although it is the day's last hour, Look with no fear: For the ...

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Over a century and a half, of pride and service to the nation, S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia will be celebrating its 175th Anniversary next year. Like the serpent keen and wise, and harmless as the ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame.

February's writer-curator on Something I Heard, Diane Raptosh, shares one of her own poems, an untitled American sonnet.

Outside of Bo Nix's 43-yard touchdown strike to fellow rookie Troy Franklin on Denver's opening drive, nothing went according to Payton and Joseph's game plan. And both veteran coaches share ...

“The poem does culminate in a declaration that: ‘I’ve been through hell; and it’s not the fire; it’s not the devil; it’s not the dark or anything — it’s the boots,’” McBratney ...

We hear them and for us, it’s peaceful. Marge Piercy is a writer from Detroit. She has written 17 novels and 20 volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light.

or strengthen the poem’s emotions? Another factor to consider is the historical and geographical context, such as the year and circumstances in which the poem was written. Think about the ...