People often praise poets for their soulful turns of phrase and how they can evoke deep emotions in ways that feel uniquely ...

At age eleven, Ezra calculated the age of the world by summing the years before and since the Flood. Its high-water mark fell ...

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud ...

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The mother of 17-year-old Karlianne Short wrote a poem in memory of her daughter that was read Friday at the sentencing of ...

Jacob’s early scholarship focused on the Nibelungenlied; Schmiesing argues that his fascination with the epic poem stemmed ...

In Jan Donley’s class at Berklee, her students study literature that centers on loss. Loss can make us sad, but it can also help us heal, Donley writes. In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, ...