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Long Island Press3h
Make Mother’s Day unforgettable with a picnic
From beachside to botanical, Long Island offers perfect picnic spots—plus tips, menus and must-haves for a memorable outdoor ...
Gainesville25d
Longtime UF staffer Sarah Carey’s 'The Grief Committee Minutes' explores many faces of grief
The book's release marks a significant milestone in Carey's writing career, fulfilling a long-held ... her ailing mother. As her mother’s health declined, Carey turned to poetry — not ...
Anchorage Daily News9d
Book review: Human relationships and care tie together works in latest ‘Alaska Quarterly Review’
The latest volume continues to feature some of the very finest contemporary literary work, with six short stories, a novella, ...
Chicago Tribune5d
Gwendolyn Brooks, Chicago’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, wrote of life’s also-rans
The strength of her visual imagery matched scenes framed by the windshield of a truck I drove, after the school day ... (ACME photo) Her mother was proud of the poems Gwendolyn started writing ...
Smithsonian Magazine8d
The Many Myths of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the 19th-Century Royal Whose Beauty and Tragic Death Transformed Her Into a Legend
The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...
In TikToks and a Memoir, a Nun Makes the Unexpected Case for Convent Life
Though she long felt a calling, Sister Monica Clare tried Hollywood first. Her book, and a visit, confirm the warmth — and ...
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Mother who lost child in OKC bombing reflects ahead of 30-year anniversary
"Some people will say, you know, 'That's been a long time ago ... SHE EVEN WROTE A POEM TITLED "OUR COMMON BOND" FOR THOSE -- LIKE HER -- WHO LOST FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT DAY.
The Harvard Crimson7d
Fifteen Questions: Carissa J. Chen on Poetry, Harvard’s History of Slavery, and the Old Jefe’s Location
And why was this exclusive to your poetry? CJC: I think there are two reasons. The first is that I found it aesthetically beautiful, because I went by my middle name and my mother’s maiden name.
The New York Times27d
Let Yourself Rage With Poet Laureate Ada Limón
Stay away from him, my mother said to me when ... I write in my journal every single day, and sometimes I have to write terrible things, really rageful, horrible poems, really rageful, horrible ...