Many of us are also experiencing our own shocks that echo that news of the day: If we are federal workers, we may have lost ...

Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds.

The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then ...

While it may seem like an offbeat choice for Christopher Nolan to be adapting Homer's The Odyssey into a movie, it actually ...

Lauren Christensen’s memoir, “ Firstborn ,” begins with an epigraph from Louise Glück’s poem “The Wild Iris”: “Hear me out: ...

This week, it's Last Call, Tacoma, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, and loads more 's Nina Freeman! Cheers Nina! Mind if we have a ...

What makes a good self-help book? The excellent book mentioned here is Philippa Perry’s The Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read. Rebecca Watson’s column also contains mention of Cate Blanchett’s ...

Author Lisa C. Taylor discusses how the awareness of our mortality can animate our writing and improve our lives.

The fact that two good friends lost important things back-to-back seemed ... master,” Elizabeth Bishop wrote in “One Art.” The poem begins by discussing the loss of inconsequential things ...

This short poem, which in Spanish sounds even more like a song, invites us to embrace being lost. Nor take the morning ... He had an intense spiritual friendship with a mystic named Shams al ...

Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...

“April is the cruellest month.” So begins T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, one of the 20th century’s most profound poems about alienation. The dark irony of Eliot’s April is not lost on businesses round ...