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Day 2: How rhythm and rhyme make a poem memorable.
Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...
Open to Hope on MSN15h
Finding Joy While Grieving: Carrying the Tiger
Finding Joy While Grieving Recently, a grief counselor told me something disturbing. He had been describing my new memoir, Carrying the Tiger: Living with Cancer, Dying with Grace, Finding Joy while ...
Poet Cyrus Cassells receives $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize for ‘exceptional talent’
An admired and longtime poet whose subjects range from school integration to the memories of Holocaust survivors has won a $100,000 prize given for “exceptional talent.” Poets ...
Two astonishing singers make Schumann’s Romantic brilliance blaze, plus the best of April’s classical and jazz concerts
Along with world-class pianist Gerold Huber, Christian Gerhaher and Julia Kleiter took the Wigmore Hall audience on a musical ...
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“Henry’s Ode”
Ladderless. Here it is again. The plateau’s sun makes a continent’s strongest shadows. What’s 42 to 43? Into a black place of ...