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McMaster student Madeline Schizas will have two of her Westdale roomies in the audience competing in figure skating at the ...

Writing towards the end of the first world war, the poet, novelist, journalist and suffragist Benson here dreams of a secure peace ...

Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.

London's Poems on the Underground celebrates 40 years of bringing verses to commuters - Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London, started the Poems on the Underground project 40 years ago ...

Few things in life are as difficult as losing those we care about. Whether a family member or friend, loss creates a gaping ...

In his first collection in 11 years, the writer conjures his youth and family, elegises old friends, and hints at sensual ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

Leaked messages revealed a friend advised Nigerian singer Ifunanya Nwangene to fumigate her room shortly after a snake bite, ...

Lads and lassies of the Flathead Valley turned out for an intimate evening of merriment, poetry, bagpiping, delicious food ...

A Columbus man has had his share of difficult moments while serving in the Army almost 15 years so far. And he’s been writing ...