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Authenticity is obvious in paintings signed by Michelangelo. A painting from the same period, with the same skill, and ...
A poem honoring Samuel Huntington, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, will debut July 5 at the Huntington Homestead ...
A holiday recipe It is not clear how the unsigned poem made its way to the Troy Sentinel. Sent anonymously, it was just one of many poems in the paper that day. Its origins are contested, but ...
The poem tells the charming story of a father who witnesses St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus, on Christmas Eve. The “jolly old elf” arrives in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer and leaves behind ...
Such was the power of Sappho’s poem that it went on to inspire various intellectuals and poets who followed her. The ancient Roman poet Catullus was so enamored of Sappho’s work that he reworked ...
Or: what poet Sappho (The Anactoria Poem) said centuries ago, recalling freedom of writing and the joy of writing, (still valid today for seasoned writers and those just beginning): On the black earth ...
Gorman’s newest poem tapped into the convention’s themes of freedom, the American dream, the “audacity of our hope” and the “vitality of our vote.”The poet and activist made history in ...
Poems, whether composed beforehand or improvised on the spot, were sung in public, at banquets, weddings, drinking parties, victory celebrations, religious rituals, and state occasions. “Anactoria” ...
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote a poem that will be brought to Jupiter's moon Europa. NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA is sending a poem by United States Poet Laureate Ada Limón on its upcoming Europa ...