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An imaginative play inspired by the world of Lewis Carroll will be staged this weekend by the Rockport High School Drama ...
The dragon-like Jabberwocky is curled up in a corner, but Wonderland is in frabjous spirits in this Washington Ballet rehearsal room. To the strains of composer Gustav Holst, the Mad Hatter and ...
In a creative blend of art and science, a new study uses historical poetry to chart the critically endangered animal’s population across the river it calls home. The finless porpoises once lived ...
The longest poem ever written is a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic called the "Mahabharata," which clocks in at roughly 1.8 million words. But the poem's daunting length didn't stop Toronto's Why Not ...
Yes, yes, you have to do homework to read a comic, but still. Persephone lived in a world of perpetual summer, her mother was Demeter, goddess of plant life. Hades, god of hell, took Persephone ...
What's fascinating is that while schools across the land have cut back on homework, kids seem to struggle even with the lighter loads they now have to manage. Assignments are done late or not at all.
She is the editor, most recently, of the anthology “Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall.” Books of lyric poems work like museums: We enter, we wander, we investigate, we marvel at ...
In one of the opening texts of Nour, an anthology of poetry and imagery by Mustafa, the Canadian poet, singer, songwriter and filmmaker offers a poignant contemplation of his relationship to the ...
But should a major decline occur, he continued, “heed these lines” from Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem “If,” circa 1895. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...
We all might be made from the same stardust yet, for as long as that dust has walked on Earth, we humans seem to have given our physical differences more weight than our shared origin. For many ...