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Dave passed by a busy street. He felt isolated. He had read somewhere that solitude sometimes was the best society. He only felt the inevitability of that thought. Dave was in search of a purpose in ...
Genevieve Pfeiffer is a Ph.D. student in the Environmental Sciences, Studies and Policy program at the University of Oregon, ...
Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of ...
In a blooming garden in Santa Monica, Santa Monica College’s English professors invited their students to share and read ...
Marmots aren’t the only local wildlife Sheffield has written about. “I am as much a naturalist as I am a poet,” said ...
Many adults admit to not getting poetry. Given all that we face as adults, I don’t get it. One answer, I suspect, has to do ...
S ince the turn of the millennium, Karen Solie has been the coolest of cool new things in Canadian poetry—a mysterious figure ...
A Ming Dynasty woodblock-printed illustration from “Sancai Tuhui” (in English ... between people and nature.” In future research, the team plans to go back into the poems that they ...
91). Given poetry’s unique literary nature, English-speaking readers of translated classical Chinese poetry typically possess a certain level of education, linguistic competence, and established ...
ASHLAND Nature has always been a friend to Steve Holt. “As a young man, I often went to the hills for solace, roaming and thinking,” he said, noting he hunted and fished with his father ...
The furore was about a poem called V by northern English poet Tony Harrison – a ... swastikas and a series of "V" letters. The nature of some of the graffiti suggested football fans were ...