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That terrifying chant in the '28 Years Later' trailer and film is a 122-year-old Rudyard Kipling poem: director Danny Boyle ...
Two Philadelphia artists – a photographer and a performance poet – combine their shared passion for observing and documenting ...
VFW Post 8469 Chaplain Marcus Kuiper gave the opening prayer at Fairfax City’s annual Memorial Day ceremony, last Monday, May 27. Held at American Legion Post 177, it was jointly hosted by both ...
In a poem about life we’d all best remember, Rumi writes of a negative emotion: “He may be clearing you out/ for some new delight.” When negative thoughts start to affect us too much, ...
I keep having to remember how much is alive, how we are alive inside it. I paddle to you, and we sit, night blinded, kayaks linked, while the ocean carries us like driftwood down the bay.
We’re indebted and thankful to you for taking the oath to defend our freedom.” Since its inception, Quilts of Valor has garnered more than 11,000 volunteer quiltmakers and awarded more than ...
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Nasser Rabah’s poem “The War Is Over,” translated from the Arabic by Wiam ...
This 14th of June, we remember and celebrate the birthday of John Bradburne who would have been 104 years old in 2025.John's ...
John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...
On this week’s episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And the Book ...