I read three letters saying that Democrats were petty, disrespectful and had “vile contempt, even for young victims of ...

Barbara Finlay found a treasure trove of letters that children in her hometown of Fife, Texas, wrote to Santa via their local ...

A reader shares what a poem Abby printed years ago still means to her.

"Decorum is behavior that people consider to be correct, polite, and respectable" (Collins English dictionary. "Propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance; decorum (is) orderliness, the ...

Venus retrograde, also known as the season of the ex, is upon us. Venus is our planet of wealth and worth, attraction and ...

February: frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to be considered as the most influential American poet of the last 10 years. A ...

The officials were helped in this endeavour by an eager-to-please Department of Social Services, which administers the National Redress Scheme and which handed private legal letters straight to the ...

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

When Steven Ratiner was the Arlington poet laureate (he’s now president of the New England Poetry Club, currently in its 110th year), he created the “Red Letter Poem Project,” sending weekly ...

Two years later, the mythology of the reindeer would be expanded. The poem “The Night Before Christmas” was written by Professor Clement Clarke Moore. First published in 1823, the story was written to ...

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And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...