In addition to a reading from former U.S. Poet Laureate and University of Virginia professor Rita Dove, the tribute will include a dance performance and live music. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

The volume, edited by Dickinson scholars Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell, is the most complete collection of Dickinson ...

Two national literary figures, Marion Winik and Naomi Shahid Nye, have collected the prose and poetry of late Texan Ann ...

Today is the big day — Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard is celebrating the first day of spring with a free Italian ice promotion. Rita’s 575-plus locations will give away an estimated 1 ...

Spring is finally here, and Philadelphia-area favorite Rita's Italian Ice is ready to welcome the season the only way they know how -- a free water ice giveaway and a brand new candy-inspired flavor.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a first day of spring tradition. Rita's is serving up free Italian ice -- better known as water ice in Philadelphia -- to celebrate the start of the season. Everyone ...

The Supreme Court on Monday (March 3, 2025) asked how a poem by Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi, which plainly translates to the “suffering of injustice with love”, stirred the Gujarat Police ...

Their descendants are the Tohono O’odham and Pima Nations. This short poem was collected by Mary Austin, an early-20th-century American poet of the modernist movement. Although she was not ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Detroit-born author Bridgett M. Davis' latest book "Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy" is a memoir that goes beyond the dynamic relationship between two siblings ...