Though he was born centuries ago, we're still watching his plays and studying his works. And his words continue to resonate today.

Seamus Heaney was born on this day, April 13 ... the young author and his mother, peeling potatoes. Heaney's poem topped the poll two years after his death in 2013. Upon the award, Heaney's ...

Over 500 poems were read by Ariel Gordon and Charlene ... The book follows a Winnipeg-born woman with a Grenadian mother and (absent) white father who studies opera in London in the 1960s.

Kennedy— invited to compose an inaugural poem ... her mother’s boyfriend raped Angelou. The man was arrested, convicted and released; soon after, he was found beaten to death.

It is sometimes now called ‘Mother’s Day,’ which is a borrowing from US practice ... and the family-focused one that seems to have been emerging at this time. A poem, published in 1648 and written by ...

Jane Marie Ross Nicholson, loving wife, mother, grandmother ... In addition to her parents, Jane was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Kenneth R. Nicholson Sr.; her grandson, Kenny ...

The song, which verbalizes the horrors of racism in the American South, has been covered countless times by artists across genres, from Tori Amos to Andra Day. But two renditions of the song ...

The Iliad, Homer’s epic poem ... married his mother, Jocasta. The ancient tragedian Sophocles immortalized this particularly disturbing tale in his play Oedipus Rex, bringing it to our modern world, ...

This hymn, a profound devotional poem dedicated to the Virgin Mary ... as Jesus Christ’s betrayal is recalled, and he is led to his death at the end of the day. The procession of the Epitaphios on ...