In savoring more, we increase feelings of happiness and strengthen general well-being, writes guest columnist Gianna Somrak.

Boyd is retired professor at Wayne State University and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan.

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Tompkins County appointed its 12th Poet Laureate on Tuesday. Find out who he is and what the position entails.

Claire Cameron is a novelist, essayist and author of the forthcoming memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack. This poem was ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Writer Michael Salinger has some unexpected advice for anyone who wants to start writing: don't — at least not right away.

Several of Narayana Guru's philosophical texts were gathered by the Collective for TM Krishna to begin a quest for truth and knowledge, through classical music.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

A poem found in an old desk at the Barnstable transfer station turned up a story that crosses time and distance. Was it fated ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...