When I am in Los Angeles, I am in the east When I am in Oconomowoc, I am in the east My heart is always in the East. Sometimes I visit it (and) Listen to it beat to the beautiful silence of the ...

The rapper described Pinkett Smith as the "omega of my heart" in the poem. The poem is included in Shakur's 1999 poetry collection, "The Rose That Grew from Concrete." Tupac Shakur, the rapper known ...

The Heart and Soul Poetry Club meets biweekly in Rupp 164 on Fridays at 4:00 p.m. Meetings are held on the first and third ...

We live in distracting times. Our superficial, materialistic, media-driven culture often seems uncomfortable with true depths of feeling. It's as if the culture as a whole has become increasingly ...

What do zinnias, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Hayden have in common? More than you’d think — and it’s helping me make sense of ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix Memorized any poems lately? It’s a worthy exercise, often a pleasure. I have never been much of a ...

Vallejo resident Wayne Parker said his late mother, artist and author Verle Jean Parker, always carried a pencil and some paper with a desire to create poetry. “Whether that’s clouds, trees, water or ...

(Correction: This story was updated and edited to correct an inaccuracy. Cassie Phillips, 32, the author of the poem "Let Them," was misidentified as another person with the same name.) This week my ...

Shelby Zomick, BSN, RN, has gone viral — at least on the nurse internet — after she shared a passionate poem tackling the struggles faced by nurses, traumatic workplace situations and heartbreaking ...

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Teacher and poet Edward Hirsch explores the ennobling powers of poetry in his compendium of masterful works from around the world, "100 Poems to Break Your Heart" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). We live ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc. A week ago, I had a column titled “Poems by ...