We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Well, if he doesn't like it ... take the oath and acknowledge me as head of the church. I shall not tolerate this defiance, not from a child to whom I gave life. She loves you, Majesty, she ...

It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose ... Another teacher who is also a writer asked me to elaborate. I was caught off-guard for a second, then ...

This can be disconcerting. Ennui is not a problem with a reliable fix, as “everything is going alright” is rarely something ...

Francois worked as a painter and Dorothy a nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital, the towering Spanish Renaissance building on the ...

“I don’t understand your life as a Yankee fan,” he told David during a car ride. “That if you don’t win the World Series, you fail. And if you do win the World Series, that meets your ...

She shared in her friend and mentor William Carlos Williams’s belief that the work of a poet is to imbue their poems with what she called “the movement of experience—a life—that gets into ...

By The Learning Network We invited students to discuss a guest essay written by a mother who says sugarcoating painful truths doesn’t help children. By The Learning Network We invite students ...