I was afraid to come out to my dad, but he was supportive. He said my happiness was all that mattered.

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

The poet Joseph Hutchison describes the magic of artichokes perfectly in his one-line poem: “O heart weighed down by so many ...

“Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968 ... I couldn’t help thinking of Keats’s sonnet about his changed worldview after ...

As classical music filled the air, members of the Polish Arts Club of Youngstown gathered Sunday for their annual arts and tea reception to kick off the group’s 90th year of promoting Polish culture ...

By the time the war ended, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent on Christmas Eve in 1814 ... In 1858, Thomas D’Arcy McGee wrote a poem entitled Along the Line, the line referring to the ...

Weeks before Dad died, his grandson, Matt, competed in the Shannon Eckstein Ironman Classic in Queensland. Already battling ...

Already battling advanced cancer, Dad had suffered a stroke on Christmas Eve that had left him with ... His final words were akin to the Japanese death poems that have been written for centuries ...

Arian Katsimbras’ debut poetry collection, The Wonder Years, published in 2023, details his harrowing, lonely, beautiful childhood in Washoe Valley.

Note: Some of these books contain triggering themes such as suicide, abuse, and death. Human Acts is arguably one of my favorite books of all time. Recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Han Kang writes a ...