Burns wrote this poem during the winter of 1785-6, which was included in the Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). It employs the Spenserian Stanza, which was ...

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First of all, it wasn't even initially part of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was built in the 1870s and 1880s. The poem ...

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As Reang explains, this comes from a Khmer (pronounced "come-eye") saying: " Joh duc, kapeur; laurng loeur, klah ." "Go in ...

Once there was a king named Midas who was favored ... It’s so much fun spending hours gathering the ninety-seven things I’ll need for the day and then layering all of them on my body.

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

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