‘Autumn always returned / to our garden’: Poems about the (extra)ordinary in tradition and modernity
You relied on a language not your own: “Dialectical materialism” always found space amidst our bodies’ warmth. And once the ...
Faith column: IAAM’s Ancestors Garden calls on us to create our own gardens of reckoning
The Ancestors Garden reckons with our past history of Black resilience and Black oppression. Together, we must also reflect ...
Independent Record2d
IR religion column by Tim Weidlich: Easter in the Garden of God
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Former Cincinnati Poet Laureate wins national award
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Academy of American Poets has awarded Cincinnati poet Manuel Iris a prestigious national award.
Dreams of the Possible and Impossible for This Year’s Garden
Cover crops like millet, sorghum, and black-eyed peas have been successful at the botanic gardens. They improve water ...
The Church Times3d
Pádraig Ó Tuama on faith and his mother tongue
RELIGION is complicated for Pádraig Ó Tuama. “Sometimes, I try to object to the idea of being a religious poet, and then I ...
Greek Reporter4d
Hesiod: The Ancient Greek Poet Who Described the Birth of the Cosmos
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony elevated him to the status of Homer and is "a major source on Greek ...
New Katharine Lee Bates documentary to be screened in Colorado Springs
Katharine Lee Bates and the Story of America the Beautiful," chronicles Bates's life as an author, poet and professor; her ...
Greek Reporter10d
World Poetry Day: Ancient Greece’s Classics, From Homer to Sappho’s Poems
As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...
‘What in Me Is Dark’ Review: Paradises Lost and Found
Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from ...
Daily Mail14d
A cringeworthy poem that bombed, floods of tears and a wardrobe malfunction: Inside footy great Billy Brownless's big day at his daughter's wedding
A very emotional Billy Brownless was a 'blubbering' mess at his daughter's wedding, where he bombed by reading a poem and had a wardrobe ... All I can say is thank god for the Wallis's, who ...
Reader's Digest18d
22 Short Poems That’ll Help You Read More Poetry This Year
The intimations of divinity in this short poem are apt because Hafiz was a devotee of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that speaks of union with the divine through a personal experience of God.