In my Impromptus today, I begin with memories of Richard V. Allen, the conservative foreign-policy hand, who passed away earlier this month at 88.
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John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the...
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A morning of precociously early snow did not spoil this year's harvest of fall colors. The yellowwood tree outside my window, true to its name,...
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November 29, 2024 – Fall is such a loaded word. It's a season; something over which water rushes headlong; a potentially life-altering conspiracy of gravity...
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Tamara Levine discovered a love for poetry might only come when someone requires you to memorize it.
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these poems show that the occasion has provided poets — from Harriet Maxwell Converse in the 19th century to Elizabeth Alexander in the 21st — with plenty of...
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Blame it on sexism, Hollywood or simply modern expectations, but we like to believe all historical figures spoke in roughly the same grand, booming voice.
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Celebrate the life of Susannah Simpson, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Dunbar Funeral Home.
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When Richard III's skeleton was found under a parking lot in England in 2012, it was an exciting enough discovery for the general public, but a game-changer...
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Two recent books by poets embrace lyrical, subjective criticism to breach the porous border between verse and prose.
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