In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of ...

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And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “Democratic Vistas.” The author of “Leaves of Grass” (1855), whose poems are still found in every anthology of American poetry, felt moved to address the ...

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Her new work has received reactions ranging from admiration for her introspective themes to some mixed reviews on its overall ...

The nominations are in for the 2025 Grammy Awards, and a few artists with Louisiana and New Orleans ties are on the list.

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, ...

America, when you come for me, I’m coming with sound in the streets, with a murder of mothers murking their way through the ...

An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin ...