See how one homesick scholar put together a massive compendium of verse by former emperors, modern-day activists, soldiers, ...

In a world flooded with cheap facsimiles of human art, will we still be able to rely on our own faculties for creation, or ...

It sounds like the start of a joke, a Jew and a Muslim walk into a Methodist Church and read some poetry, but in reality, that is exactly what happened and the event held in Island Heights served as a ...

Storm Cecile is an international spoken word poet who has been writing since she was a child. This year, to help mark ...

The blooming of May’s gardenias and June’s crepe myrtles always reminds me of my dog, Sugar, a fine-coated and sassy white ...

This year’s contest was held in memory of Joel Cohen, Wagner College Class of 1950, and a beloved Staten Island Advance columnist.

Spring has sprung ... and so has the garden, starting with the hellebores and a sprinkling of wild bloodroot that snuck into ...

The red-winged blackbirds returned in February, followed by the sandhill crane, the mountain bluebird, and most recently the osprey. Though I somehow missed them, I know the snow geese passed by ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes ...

The origins of this phrase are obscure, but it’s generally believed to have been heavily inspired by Coleridge, who wrote in his 1825 poem “Work Without Hope”: “All Nature seems at work.

In recognition of Earth Day, consider tapping into the energy of spring to find hope and inspiration for ... Catalogued as poetry, Gay’s work is mostly prose, very accessible and (as promised ...