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

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A P.E.I. man who spent four decades photographing the outdoors and teaching students has died. John Sylvester, born in 1955, died Jan. 19 at home with his daughters by his side. Sylvester was an ...

US president Donald Trump has been sworn in as 47th president of the United States. He then celebrated with his family and Vice-President JD Vance. An American Airlines flight collided in mid-air ...

Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read ... of six poets to read at their inaugurations — John F Kennedy, Bill Clinton (twice), Barack Obama (twice ...

Turlough, Bell Harbour and Turnpike, Ennis, Co. Clare and late of the Bronx ... Requiem Mass on Saturday at 11 am followed by burial in Corcomroe Abbey cemetery. Peter, Margaret, Keith and Lorraine ...

Sr Clare Crockett, a nun from Brandywell in Co Derry who died in 2016, is officially a 'Servant of God' following the opening of the cause for her beatification in a ceremony at the Cathedral of ...

Yet can I really escape it? How much of my creative life is now affected by it, how many poems has the insidious smog crept its way into? Too many. When I come around, through the train window ...

By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays ... Lines Written in Clare Priory Yard,” by G.C. Waldrep, I recognized a Heidegger reference: “I am,/in these moments ...

John Klingberg is on the verge of trying to resurrect his NHL career after spending more than a year working his way back from a double hip resurfacing procedure. The free-agent defenseman hasn ...

Watch the hearing in the player above. John Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term, told lawmakers that if confirmed, he would push the agency to do ...