Many Americans have heard the expression “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine” – in fact, a quick Google search turns ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Students at Deep Springs College vote on issues of governance in 2003. Since 1917 the unconventional school has enrolled ...

In the sanctuary of stories, I am bold. From realms of fantasy to tales of old, Even mystery stories, I have read them all. In books, new horizons are found.

By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include ... I recognized a Heidegger reference: “I am,/in these moments, at the center of the world worlding.” ...

Although I always thank God for my wife, it is when we make love that I feel closest to her and to God. Rabbi Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, the founder of the Hassidic movement, said (in Zava’at ha-Riva’sh), ...

The past year of Leslye Headland’s work has been a love letter to her teenage self. The multitalented ...

During the Middle Ages, Europeans believed that apples had aphrodisiac qualities and used them in love rituals. If a woman ...

The Santa Clarita Valley lost a beloved mentor and guiding light with the passing of Douglas Robert Worley on January 13, 2025.

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire ...

Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels, essays ... Because I die by brightness and the Holy Spirit, The sun rejoices in your jail, my kneeling Christian, (Where even now you weep ...

Kevin Jiang, 26, a Yale graduate student and former Army National Guardsman, was gunned down in New Haven, Connecticut. What appeared to be a road rage incident soon unraveled into a story of ...