But the beauty of love poems is that they can speak for us when we can’t find the words. Whether you want ... when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace.

But none of it prepared me for the sight of this tiny little atoll ... nations and coastal cities to drowning." In other words: See ya, Marshall Islands. The tone is almost nonchalant.

The Song of the Bow is an epic poem lionizing ... from God’s word welling up within him, and in that way David was really a prophet (Acts 2:30). Do we believe this when we come to the Song of the Bow?

It is easy to assume that the powerful words of this young man from ... So why, after all these years, do we see Wilfred Owen’s poetry as a defining image of World War One?

Explore the cinematic legacies of an unlikely duo, Stan Brakhage and Sidney Lumet, with two retrospective screening series.

Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin never met. But both were enchanted by the complexity of the natural world—and the ...

Someone with symmetrophobia, the fear of symmetry, faces intense anxiety at the thought or sight of objects appearing symmetrical ... In some cases, even hearing or reading the word "yellow" may ...

Children, especially crying babies, have been invisible to him for decades but now he knows unmistakably that they are not ...

“The Iliad” is a poem about the ... on the Meaning of the Word ‘Democracy,’ ” he maps his thinking of the good-enough mother onto democratic society as a whole. But first he points out something ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Two consecutive federal holidays – Juneteenth and Independence Day – highlight the sweep of ...

They replaced the shackles with a tablet and the torch, and then put the shackles very subtly underneath her robe, but the ...