On a quiet weekday afternoon, Flint-based poet Vivian Kao can often be found walking through Buckham Gallery with a clipboard in hand. As ...

Books & the Arts / In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without ...

To this day I am not quite sure whether I began by watching the water-voles, or whether it was the water-voles that began by ...

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” “I ...

Inspirational poems that’ll raise your spirits Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry ...

Although Sylvia Plath is admired by many literary scholars and even adored by some passionate readers, critics have not been unanimous in their assessment of her art. Irving Howe declared in 1972 that ...

In 1101, 64-year-old Su was called back again, but died during his journey north on July 28 of the Chinese lunar calendar, just two weeks before Mid-Autumn Festival. In his 1082 poem, Su wrote: ...

A calligraphic work by Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) features a transcribed poem by Zhao Dacheng. CHINA DAILY On Mid-Autumn night in 767, four years after the rebellions were ...

Whether you approach the Dalai Lama as a philosopher, a religious leader, a political exile, or spiritual teacher, these five ...