Paeans to rain and the monsoon are not new in the subcontinent. Kalidasa’s Ritusamhara offers resplendent rhymes to rain, a ...

In steps, in leaps, my feet in wet mud, my shadow on old walls, my dropped napkin, my body’s warmth on a bus seat, my weight ...

A Canadian physician serving in the war penned the short poem that inspired the Memorial Day connection to the poppy. An American professor wrote her own poem and promoted the flower as a symbol ...

Alabama award-winning writer with Hot Springs roots, author, and the 2017–2021 State Poet Laureate of Alabama Jennifer Horne ...

There is no good way to say this,” begins Yiyun Li’s new memoir, . It is what the police officers lead with after Li’s elder ...

In the June 11 episode of Days of Our Lives, the town gathered to say goodbye to John Black in a moving funeral filled with ...

From spicy stories, inspired by a Chinese erotic novel, to buckets of very dry humor and even a blond penguin – the Baltics ...

Sow your opium poppies - used to make medical painkillers including morphine, codeine and oxycodone, as well as illegal ...

I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and neither by ...

In her collection of poems, titled Exiled for My Mouth, Stella Nyanzi has laid on thick the thinness of her existence, rendering it precarious for her to go home and stay abroad. She is ...

The red poppy's symbolism originated during World War I, inspired by the poem "In Flanders Fields ... the lives lost on battlefields where these flowers once grew. "The red poppy is a nationally ...

Newark Advocate faith columnist Mark Katrick explains why hard work and patience make growth and development even sweeter.