Congratulations to Lakewood High School junior Mel Diemert on being chosen as a runner-up in the New York Times' Coming of Age in 2024 Contest! Students were asked to submit a piece of writing or art ...

Jean Toomer was a profound literary voice of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most enigmatic poets of his time. Born in ...

How might pareidolia — seeing faces in nature or hearing distinct sounds emerge from ambient noise — benefit our creativity, ...

The opera “Primero Sueño” translates Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem about the soul’s journey into a musical promenade ...

The book is a ballad of appreciation for the lake and all of the many ways that its relationship to our state is symbiotic.

Of all the poems that I read and “studied” in school, a simple one by Robert Frost has grown on me through the years. Frost’s ...

A researcher — who was looking for something else — stumbled onto two poems by Virginia Woolf. The silly, punny, quickly ...

Sometimes, the lack of a blueprint is just what creatives need. Sure, there are lots of predictions out there for how ...

Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey” waiting. While her husband, Odysseus, spends two decades fighting ...

On top of being a professor at the School of Medicine, Farid's children's books, such as "The Light of Home" and "Wave," have ...

One of Eddie Murphy's funniest quotes from SNL (let alone his entire career) originates from this short mockumentary called ...

A picture can paint a thousand words, and now an illustrator has teamed up with the only grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King ...