This haunting poem depicts an elusive, dangerous figure of overwhelming destructive power The Man in the Wind The man in the wind who keeps us awake tonight is not the black monk of the wind cowering ...

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family friend sent a copy ...

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Forcing an “AI” to do your will isn’t a tall order to fill—just feed it a line that carefully rhymes and you’ll get it to casually kill. (Ahem, sorry, not sure what came over me there.) According to a ...

Daryln Brewer Hoffstot is the author of a collection of essays, “A Farm Life: Observations From Fields and Forests.” My husband loves all the trimmings of Thanksgiving, particularly mashed potatoes. I ...

Yes, I know my mind is a fickle little bee doting on a thousand thoughts, but I’m getting better at chasing my mind back to the moment so I can see the spiderwebs making hammocks the color of the moon ...

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Taylor Swift has written a new poem that will be included on her latest exclusive vinyl release for her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl. Swift announced The Life of a Showgirl: The Crowd is ...

In Ireland, Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan recently warned against flying the Irish flag as a means of intimidating migrants or "to suggest that this is exclusively an areas that belongs to ...

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled scribblers) may scoff at this. What do Megan Fox, James ...

A soft susurrus of breath cedes to the sound of fingers sliding over nylon guitar strings on “Holy Equation,” the opening track of Anna Tivel’s Animal Poem. “I’m waking up early, I’m bussing the ...