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 ...

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 screenwriter-director-showrunner-playwright is on the eve of closing her acclaimed Broadway debut ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

City are out of this race, Christian Norgaard ... them the chance to say Liverpool choked. You build them up, you knock them down. Like a lot of Liverpudlians, I am reasonably confident the ...