Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

A framed reproduction of Myron King’s 19th-century illustration of “The Night Before Christmas” went missing from the Troy ...

Retried EKU professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton launched a non-profit call Why We Write, and helped compile the poems for 'A ...

This week’s poem, Mary Tracy’s “Legacy,” considers our afterlives in the long span of deep time and larger natural cycles. I ...

Johnny Marks at the piano in a publicity photo. Photo: Courtesy St. Nicholas Music.

How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, "Adversarial Poetry as a ...

A shrewd move by George Washington. Why Gauguin wore a 10-gallon hat. And the benefits of breathing through your nose ...

"Hold the Hope" was sparked by one woman's experience as a caregiver to someone who survived suicidal struggles. It started ...

Twas the night before Christmas, and Santa was sighing, He looked at the bridge traffic, and said, “Thank God I’m flying.” The stockings were hung for St. Nicholas to find, While the unions prayed for ...

Elisa New, the spouse of former university president Larry Summers, sought to downplay her relationship to the disgraced ...

When Emily Dickinson wrote the poem “Hope is that thing like feathers” in 1861, she couldn’t have imagined a world like we ...