Southerners know that beauty isn’t about looks. You don’t find it in glancing at someone, but in talking to them, connecting with them, understanding them, and comprehending what they love and the ...
in places she’d rather not name, how her skin there felt more like leather. she already knew what she knew. Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: “Woman in the Painting,” ...
The poems in Susan Swartwout's recent book, "Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit: Poems," were inspired by the author's upbringing in the deep South, as well as childhood moves to many cities. Swartwout not ...
Cynthia Rose discovered her first book of poetry at a yard sale with her late mother. She purchased a tattered copy of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe, and started writing her own poetry around ...
Jane Hirshfield, the author of eight books of poetry and two essay collections, has two books out from Knopf this month: “The Beauty: Poems” (107 pages; $26) and “Ten Windows: How Great Poems ...
The danger of familiarity is that it's comfortable. And when something becomes familiar it stops being remarkable. Without the work of mindfulness, the little noticings go first and quietly accumulate ...
MONTEVIDEO, Minn. - Two Montevideo brothers have taken on a challenge as big as getting kids to eat their vegetables. Which is kind of how they describe their goal of introducing regular folks to ...