Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

So begins a poem, titled “The Cowboy,” about a real-life folk hero of sorts: Ben Ellingson, the 5-year-old who helped find ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Her offspring will face “a life of being swept about on the whipping stem of a teasel”, yet she is resilient, evolved to weather the storms. Reading this poem recalls the work of Padel’s ...

readying a sack full of sunflower seeds. One woman powers on the electric machine, and it bursts into life. Its grain-grinding jaws rotate purposefully, and the woman eagerly processes the seeds ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas Merton. See the end of this page for Thomas Merton in Photographs. Because my will is simple as a window And knows ...

They found out that a ... Feb. 3, 2025 — New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists ... Life-Bearing Water Arrived on Earth Later ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — No. 16/17 Kansas (16-6, 7-4 Big 12) plays at Kansas State (11-11, 5-6 Big 12) in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown on Saturday, Feb. 8. Tip from Bramlage Coliseum is set for 1 p.m. and ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 11, 2025, the moon is 13 days old, and approaching the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 98% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time ...