Part of the reason A.E. Housman (1859–1936) holds a high and immovable place for those who read and write formal poetry is that — as the Sun pointed out in March, when the Poem of the Day column ...

Read the elegiac poetry of Joseph Brodsky, a Cold War Russian exile, with host Elisa New. Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky wrote about the centaur as a Cold War self-portrait: a divided global refugee ...

Emily Fornell is a character that NCIS fans are going to miss. Pic credit: CBS The latest episode of NCIS was a poignant one. While there was a mystery to solve, fans of the show were gutted by a ...

to fill the sky with wreckage. We clutch our skin, reach for hope from our ankles, We close our eyes, pray for water, pray for answers, We keep our fear in a silent place — we run. There was a flash ...

Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, passed away on this day, August 30, in 2013. I only met Seamus Heaney a few times but knew him enough to recognize his extraordinary personal gifts ...

Source: 'Photo taken by Zoe Weil' Last week, I had the opportunity to experience the power of my epitaph. How is that possible given that I’m not dead yet? It happened because I deliberately wrote my ...

Brothers and sisters, I am here to bear witness and to say goodbye to someone I never knew. Here, at the alter of Jack Daniels, in this House of Perfume and Smoke, in this faceless city, I say goodbye ...