The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for ...
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Menachem Rosensaft, the son of survivors, challenges the comforting messages of Judaism’s best-known collection of verse.
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The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...
Instead of trying to break down the art of naming a child, let’s try something different and use art as inspiration for the ...
It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust ...
Ethel Blythe Penningroth, born in Williamsburg on Jan. 13, 1897, lived on a farm east of Iowa City in 1956. She was a homemaker and a lifelong poet who also took time to write letters to children from ...
Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.
You might find yourself crying, but you won’t find many tears onscreen. Still, Roemer’s camera remains close, unswerving, ...