Our thoughts may inspire us or tear us apart, Or they may win us money and fame! And the hardest thing that can be done with our thoughts, Is compress them and make them be tame. Some thoughts are ...

At the dawn of the new millennium, UNESCO inaugurated the annual World Poetry Day. Its aim was to honour humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Since then, ...

Life can be an unforgiving and exhausting journey — from natural disasters happening halfway around the world to something closer to home like the loss of a beloved pet. While these tragedies are ugly ...

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In “Kyrie,” these sonnets published way back in 1995, before I knew poetry or prison, Ellen Bryant Voigt reminds us that there have been pandemics before. There has been that absurd accumulation of ...