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

The wick hisses  in a flat pool of wax  and the drape is drawn  above. The summit  blues buckle  under this great taking.  All is pitch-dark as soil  save heroes and horses,  dotted, glowing.  At the ...

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

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, ...