When Eva Felder set aside her book of poems more than 20 years ago, the retired teacher never thought she would finish it. But about a year ago, Felder, now 91, picked up her pen again and completed ...
CHICAGO -- Peh'Tehn Raighn-Kem, 3, is big inspiration in a tiny package as she performs the poem "Hey Black Child" by Countee Cullen on Windy City Live. Peh'Tehn's parents, Lashaun and Andrea Jackson, ...
For recently published author Peter Hoffman, it all began with ferrets. As a child, he would linger in pet stores, watching the ferrets scramble around. He had even created his own comic strip ...
When Sarah Rose Nordgren looks back at her childhood, she calls it “distinctive,” filled with myth and fable. “I’ve always been interested in things like myth and fable because I’ve always been ...
Hilary Duff Calls Relationship With Haylie the ‘Most Lonely Part’ of Her Life Her new song “We Don’t Talk” addresses it head-on.
The Wall Street Journal examines the poem, "Only Child," by Billy Collins, from his new book, "The Rain in Portugal" (Random House, Oct. 4). Below the poem, Collins describes his inspiration for the ...
The past becomes almost magically present again in this potent Ukrainian elegy The Bread of Childhood Grandmother’s pyrohy oozing cherries, the soil Fragrant with spring, These are the heart’s ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Peh'Tehn Raighn-Kem, 3, is big inspiration in a tiny package as she performs the poem "Hey Black Child" by Countee Cullen on Windy City Live. Peh'Tehn's parents, Lashaun and Andrea ...