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

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

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Alike the bitter cup of grief, Alike the draught of bliss, Its progress leaves but moment brief For baffled lips to kiss.

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We are pleased to announce the judges of the 2025 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the 2025 James Laughlin Award. Hayan Charara, Suzanne Gardinier, and Lisa Olstein will serve as ...

He comes at whiles, the Winter through, West Wind! I would not miss His sudden tryst: the long, the new Surprises o ...

Born in 1938, Ishmael Reed is the author of many collections of poems and essays, as well as several novels, and he is also well known for his contributions to jazz and blues music, as both a lyricist ...

Lucy Larcom was born in 1824 and grew up in Beverly, Massachusetts. She taught at Wheaton Seminary from 1854 to 1862. She is the author of A New England Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1889) and ...

has only good news for my body / and for my mind, she warms them ...

During the COVID lockdown, I experienced the same kind of brain fuzziness that so many people did:hours slid together, the calendar felt abstract, my ability to remember details felt like trying to ...