"All That We Ask of You Is To Always Be Happy," Durham poet Bridget Bell's debut collection, comes out on February 4.

Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry ... It is like being awakened by the Blessed Virgin. It is like coming forth from primordial nothingness and standing in clarity, in Paradise. In the ...

As for Juliet, Shakespeare presents her as being considerably younger than she is in the source poem by Arthur Brooke ... an unwanted marriage to Paris; the Nurse fails to support Juliet, even ...

Director Payal Kapadia eventually points her camera at Prabha (Kani Kusruti), a head nurse working at a local ... Parvaty is being evicted by real estate developers from her home of 22 years ...

His death was confirmed by the group’s representatives who said he “passed away peacefully in his sleep” at a nursing home in ... in addition to being a farm inspector and entomologist ...

a nurse, surrounded their children with music, and encouraged them to learn instruments from an early age. Both of her older brothers were heavily involved in music and poetry, and she would join ...

Local love stories is a weekly feature leading up to Valentine’s Day CHICO — After a year and a half of grieving her late husband John Dubois, Tami Early knew it was time to get a dog. But not just ...

I’ve always been drawn to writing — be it short stories, poems ... being struck by an SUV in front of a Dallas grocery store. The woman’s injuries were so severe that she now lives in a ...

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

Dear Annie: I grew up with a mother who was an abusive alcoholic and drug addict. She also struggled with anorexia and severe mental illness, which made my childhood incredibly painful and traumatic.

I had been out of nursing school for a year and was working at a neonatal intensive care unit in Chicago. I was tired, stressed, burnt out, challenged and questioning my decision to become a ...

It leaves me questioning how society has lost its sense of respect and gratitude for nurses who are just trying to do their ...