Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

The Nobel Prize winning author is vigilant against the dangers of forgetting in a memorable, probing and exquisitely detailed ...

It's time to send out the Christmas newsletter again this year. Sure, it could be the same old dry recitation of your family ...

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

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...

The Bird Calls' new album extends into whimsical territory, greeting you warmly with a tapestry of lustrous synths, shimmery electric riffs and softly shuffling drums.

“A Complete Unknown” portrays Woody Guthrie, dying in his bed of Huntington’s disease, as a bedrock of authenticity as well ...

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." This classic Ferris Bueller ...

The Village Bohemian counterculture movement in the late 19th century and early 20th, with its artistic creativity and ...

Her message strikes the same encouraging, hopeful tone as Burns's poem. It's also a prime example of exactly what Prince William meant in his birthday ... It's a rallying cry to all of us: Life may be ...