I didn’t live through the Christmas of 1929, but growing up in Nogales, the border was always there—constant, imposing, ...

James Berry was born in Jamaica in 1924. He grew up in Jamaica and at the age of seventeen went to work in America and eventually settled in England, where he would spend the rest of his life. Berry ...

Twenty-twenty was a perfect year to do just that.” ...

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The following poems are for the Christmas holiday, including poems about the nativity, Christmas trees, family, and more.

Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. And death shall have no dominion.

And the darkness rolled up on one side, And the light stood shining on the other, And God said: That's good! Then God reached out and took the light in his hands, And God rolled the light around in ...

feathers dripping from each of their mouths. The first dog was just plain old. The second died of a heart worm pill —my father neglected to purchase.

Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No. It is immortal as immaculate Truth, 'Tis not a blossom shed as soon as youth, Drops from the stem of life—for it will grow, In barren regions, where no waters flow, ...

The new poet laureate of the United States is Ada Limón. The poet laureate of the United States is appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress. Over the course of the one-year term, which lasts ...

William Wordsworth, who rallied for “common speech” within poems and argued against the poetic biases of the period, wrote some of the most influential poetry in Western literature, including his most ...