Maya Angelou is the second poet in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration; Robert Frost was the first ...
On March 21, as the world marked World Poetry Day, many questions came to mind, among them, the one chosen as the title of this discourse. Like other cultures around the globe, our culture as ...
Are aspects of language and cognition associated with decreased mortality? Recent research suggests that the answer is yes.
Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain,” in which a poet falls ill and confronts mortality, the meaning of art and the failures of health care, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction on Monday.
Poems don’t give you news, they give you inspiration. Poems don’t give you knowledge, they heighten your sensitivity. Poems don’t give you information, they increase your empathy.