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Throughout history, mothers have held a sacred place in Armenian culture and society.  They are revered as the embodiment of ...
Joy Harjo, the first Native American Poet Laureate in the U.S., is releasing two illustrative books this month, centered ...
SHARON AUBERLE “I know enough to refuse to say that life is good, but I act as though it were…” – Lisel Mueller, poet I know ...
Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Christmas poems to put you in a festive mood Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, ...
What’s the best classical music for Mother’s Day? From lullabies to symphonies, here are some of the most beautiful pieces of classical music written with mothers in mind, to celebrate the maternal ...
If you click on a link in this story we may earn affiliate revenue. WHEN Mother’s Day rolls around, it’s a sure sign that spring is on the way. That makes it the perfect time to gift summery ...
“every day is a funeral ... tell you about it.” In that poem’s first stanza, Smith introduces an unsettling image: “on the bad nights, i wake to my mother / shoveling dirt down my ...
We made T-shirts to celebrate the first day of every new school year ... family had these routines — they were ways of managing my sister’s triggers. My mother, relentlessly creative and deprived of ...
Sadly, both his late mother and his wife Sheila were diagnosed with dementia. Tony's focus has turned to raising awareness of the condition. His poem, 'The Homecoming', is a tribute to his mother, ...
easily read poems, with universal feelings at their core." Shriver’s close friend Oprah Winfrey calls it “astonishing” and says, “I read this book on a rainy day, sitting in my window seat ...