October 8, 2025 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Sharon Matthews DiMaria, wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, poet, artist, and ...

In the debut author’s The Poet Empress (Bramble, Jan.), set in a world where poetry is magic but women aren’t allowed to read, a peasant girl becomes a prince’s concubine.

While shooting the 1989 movie, the actor said he learned how two creatives could collaborate, despite having "a very ...

Salina Art Center hosts Eat Your Words, a cooking class with chef Adrienne Lynn, and poetry readings led by Kansas Poet ...

Yellow Flower Gills Me Whole exhibits a perspective that seems to sit outside of time. At times, Ghosh’s poems shift between humorous, profound, risqué and sensual. Others suggest a profound ...

“Far as the east from even, / Dim as the border star, / Life is the little creature / That carries the great cigar.” So wrote Emily Dickinson, with some unfortunate help from a computer. As I read ...

ZURICH, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Writing off 16.5 billion Swiss francs ($20.53 billion) in Credit Suisse bonds was unlawful, a Swiss court ruled on Tuesday, boosting bondholders' hopes of recouping losses ...

The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Although last year marked the centenary of her birth, the occasion passed ...

“I could compromise access to my body for the greater good of my body,” Michelle Gurule writes in her debut memoir Thank You, John, as she, a then-24-year-old college student, decides to have sex with ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...