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Before Eliza Acton published Modern Cookery for Private Families in 1845, she was known for crafting lush, sentimental verse.
Tank and the Bangas brings its dynamic blend of poetry, hip-hop, gospel, funk and rock to Variety Playhouse on April 17.
We’ve all got a story (or two) to tell. Yours could earn you money. Chicken Soup for the Soul is accepting stories and poems ...
Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such negotiations. As a mere reader unacquainted with this superb poet, I cannot say what ...
He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...
From delightful Christmas poems for kids that inspire little ones ... but the watchman may be a bit too good at his job. This Christmas poem is much longer than the two-stanza excerpt above ...
Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?
In her new memoir, "I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home" (to be published April 1 by The Open Field), Maria Shriver – the daughter of Kennedys ...
The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.
The Good Child’s Amusing Riddle-Book was a collection of rhyming verse puzzles published in England in 1807. The book might have been intended for children, but some of the riddling poems it ...
Following the exchange of love declarations between Nigerian senator Ned Nwoko and his wife, Regina Daniels, Nigerians on social media have flooded the internet with mixed reactions. PUNCH Online ...
With the girl beside him, he has all that he requires. So long as they are alone together, and she is in his custody, so to speak. The artist’s seemingly simple pen strokes were capable of ...