Christmas 2019We travel this route across desert searchingSouls weighed down by horror and despair.Artificial trees shimmer.

The Boston poet has long been recognized as the first person of African descent in North America to publish a book.

There’s a tradition among poets to put a poem inside the Christmas cards they send.

Poems From Galle, the new collection of poems by Chandana Ruwan Jayanetti, will be launched at 2.00 p.m. on Saturday, the 20th December, at Dakshinapaya, the Auditorium of the Chief Ministry, Southern ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen was first published in 1847. In some ways, it is Andersen’s darkest tale. The character ...

Exclusive perks may be well-intended business decisions, but Christian gatherings shouldn't reinforce economic hierarchy.

Luke Johnson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

We explain why religious attacks can incline people toward faith. By Lauren Jackson I’ve never been inside the Mormon church in Michigan that a man rammed into, shot and burned to a black basin of ash ...

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.

I n a recent skirmish in the current war on woke, John Milton’s Paradise Lost was caught in the crossfire. In December 2024, the scholar Orlando Reade’s book on the “revolutionary afterlife” of Milton ...

William Cowper is known to many only as the author of the words of the hymn “Praise for the Fountain Opened,” based on Zechariah 13:1. But he wrote a significant number of hymns and religious poems, ...