Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

The world we live in is a wasteland of words, but reading poetry reminds us that language can be used with precision and ...

It read: Denis Law: The King of the Stretford End. Rest in peace. A warrior born on Scotland's land, Who rose to rule with a ...

Seventeen million souls deprived of the right to experience life. Anyone who views the Holocaust as a Jewish problem is ...

Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” ...

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon makes Chaucer's complete works available in a new ...

You may or may not remember him from your elementary school ... depends upon “getting his right-hand man back.” In real life, decades after the Revolution’s end, Lafayette was invited ...

"We must let go of the life we had planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." — Joseph Campbell ...

Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.

No-one in Herbertville would have been surprised to read the Herald ’s story—by my reckoning, he’d been living around Route ...