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Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...
Worcester actor John Morello debuts his performance of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" with 4th Wall Stage..
For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...
This Christmas poem is much longer than the two-stanza excerpt above, but you can read the full work to ... Written in 1899 during the Boer War, the Christmas poem starts by declaring “This ...
“She was a woman who lived her values and her ideals and used her voice, her poems ... a peace advocate. This song helped galvanize and provide hope to World War I soldiers on the front.” ...
One morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern tip of ...
As President Trump’s crackerjack cabinet settles in and unsettles any sentient American, we are not beholding a series of ...
TO Alison Krauss, her latest project is “like stepping into an old pair of shoes”. The singer blessed with a sweet soprano ...
From memoirs to White House ornaments, the creations of local women are featured in the Rancho Bernardo History Museum’s ...
Hard rock and heavy metal have long had a love affair with the Vikings. Led Zeppelin arguably kicked the whole thing off with Immigrant Song in 1970, singer Robert Plant memorably wailing, ‘ Valhalla, ...
Imagine yourself in my position. Seven years ago I, a lifetime non-believer, surrendered to a student’s invitation and joined ...