For better or worse, death comes for us all. The grief and the pain associated with death and loss are well-noted as the worst parts of human experience, and I argue that the “celebration of life” ...
Robert Burns most probably wrote the famous poem “Address to a Haggis” in 1786 for a dinner at the house of his merchant friend Andrew Bruce. Burns, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, ...
Soon after his suicide in 1989 at the age of 25, Hai Zi’s poems about nature, loneliness, and the fleeting nature of yearning and happiness began inspiring a generation of steadfast, fiercely ...
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie) Levy, who lives in St. Louis in a neighborhood of trees, birds, squirrels and other creatures she welcomes into her poems.
so it was only fitting that his celebration of life on Saturday afternoon featured a star-studded guest list of luminaries. Thousands filled the Oakland Arena -- which sits adjacent to the field named ...
2 at 11 a.m. in the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul to observe the World Day for Consecrated Life. The celebration, which began in 1997, coincides with the liturgical Feast of the ...
Woodson, who founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and ... but even after his death, community members demanded a continuation of the celebration he created.