Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

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One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

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Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

Many in Dante’s time thought it was a mistake to write an epic poem in a mutable, perishable language—Dante’s Tuscan vernacular—while Latin as a formal language was relatively stable and ...

As the current term of the new administration begins, the wine industry finds itself bracing for the possibility of new tariffs on imported wines. While the idea of tariffs might sound abstract ...

When the weather outside isn’t playing ball (or even when it is, to be honest), there’s arguably no better way to spend an evening than inside a cosy, dimly-lit bar, where the candles are glowing and ...

Therefore, everything changes for A.J. when, one night, his treasured book of poems gets stolen. Shortly afterward, an unlikely face arrives at his bookstore, offering him a whole new future ahead.

Trump Winery released an inauguration wine to celebrate President Donald Trump‘s second term in the White House. “History in a bottle – Presidential Reserve is now available!” the winery ...

Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read ... traditionally paid in a “butt of canary wine”, they also receive a modest salary. Some, like Imtiaz Dharker ...