Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

ECSTASY: Poems, by Alex Dimitrov In his seminal “Letters to a Young Poet,” Rainer Maria Rilke encourages his long-distance apprentice to be as patient as possible with everything unsolved in ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Since her death and subsequent funeral, Bekkerus’ words have been shared on social ... “The beginning of my grown-up life, yet the start of the end of my life. Up until this I had hardly ever been ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

On May 27, tears were shed as the store closed at 4pm with an emotional poem read out by managing director Margaret Jacques. At the time, Ms Jacques said: "This shop has been such an important ...

The funeral for Former Arizona Congressman Raúl ... There will also be a celebration of life at El Casino Ballroom, 437 E. 26th St., from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The celebration is ...

GENTLE READER: You raise an interesting question: Does a “celebration of life” require etiquette adjustments from a funeral, which it is increasingly replacing? Funerals used to be set rituals ...

Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes of children.” Charles has authored more than 100 books and 5,000 poems. He has given readings at The ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...

TOMORROW. ALEXIS. THANKS, KENT. AND LOUISVILLE CELEBRATED THE LIFE OF JUNIOR BRIDGEMAN THIS MORNING AT SOUTHEAST CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN WLKY’S. NORMAN SEAWRIGHT SHARES HOW ONE OF OUR OWN WAS ...

“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems ...