The Lebanese-American poet Ameen Rihani (1876–1940) inhabited two cultures, traveling between Lebanon, where he was born, and New York City, where he had initially moved with a brother at the age of ...

SUMMIT — Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School (LCJSMS) celebrated Read Across America Day with poetry. The LCJSMS Library Learning Commons has a diverse collection of poetry books and many of them ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

I blow it off but little did I know that the Corona Virus would change 2020. School gets canceled for two weeks, two weeks turn into months, we start something called Zoom. The next few months I am ...

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With summer comes fire: fires of raging destruction, and fires that ignite growth and renewal. The theme of fire came to me as I read two new books of poems: A Soldier’s Daughter (Turning Point, 2008) ...

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Like sticky fly-paper in which might be embedded an owl, or a garden, A snake, ferret, or feeling of joy or despair – even a sleepless night. Or maybe A dog walk in a narrow country lane with two ...

This week, the Sligo Champion, in association with The Yeats Society, introduces the Favourite Poem Project. Over the next few months, as part of an occasional series, we will publish favourite poems ...

A Junior Cert poem called Poisoning Pigeons in the Park has left anti-blood-sports campaigner and independent TD Tony Gregory in a literary huff. But when he complained that the poem was offensive, ...