By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and ...

An old, old, old, old, old (key word is old here), old flame of mine from my freshman year of high school recently sent me this poem: ...

Bertie Ocampo's father, Louie Ocampo, performed a sweet song for her at her wedding reception on Jan. 17. 'There wasn’t a dry eye in the room. Every guest I spoke to told me they were either close to ...

On February 27, it will be 10 years since losing my wonderful dad, Harvey Butterworth, who died suddenly on Haddington golf course.

The Instructions of Amenemhat, also known as The Teaching of King Amenemhat I to His Son Senusret, is a literary work from ...

After years of not painting, Nicky Santore picked up his brush to paint the story of Pip, part beast, bird, insect, and ...

Angela Bauer has been a copy editor and lifestyles editor for the Journal-Courier since July 2012. The Evansville, Indiana, ...

In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...