Here in April, celebrated annually as National Poetry Month, I’ve been wondering: Is there a truly great poem about the Mississippi River? The question first came to mind last December when a copy of ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

A 9-11 memory and poem, from Sister Cashel Weiler of Rochester: Sept. 11, 2001 was my first day of a fall vacation. I live in Saint Marys Convent in Rochester, and glancing at the TV, I thought it was ...

My grandpa, Hugo Palavicino, immigrated from Chile in the 1970s amid political and social unrest. He settled in New York City, determined to build a new life. He arrived with a small carry-on and $10.

What holds a country together? What deepens a culture rooted in memory? What traditions give life and meaning to a people? Where do dreams come from that move a people forward? Memories stored in mind ...

‘Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / ‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow proclaims in the tremendous final verse of his 1865 Civil War poem “Christmas Bells.” We ...

A light touch and a wry tone are what readers typically remember from the poetry of Alexander Pope (1688–1744), but he was absurdly talented, a man from whom words poured out in meter and rhyme as ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and ...

Plenitude The housing crisis peeps through certain poems (“our young who cannot afford a home: there is no nest” Lustrous ...

YADKIN COUNTY, N.C. -- The Highway Patrol is honoring a trooper who was killed in the line of duty in a special way. Related: Surry County Trooper Dies in Fiery Wreck on I-77 South in Yadkin Co.