Melineh and I are lifelong friends, bound early on by a shared and abiding love for literature. Some of my most vivid ...

There’s no question: The pandemic and the nation’s racial reckoning has weighed heavily on students. Much has been written about how they’re struggling. But they’re also finding ways to cope with the ...

When it was her turn, Brienne read a poem. I’ve been to my share of demonstrations, protests and rallies and heard a lot of powerful, sometimes angry rhetoric, but I had never heard someone say she ...

“Linking hands, poets and writers will offer our loud, one after the other, two to three lines of poetry in remembrance and ...

I enjoy the periodic notes I receive from my readers; it’s nice to know that someone appreciates my thoughts. Recently I received a question from a reader, “Dr. Joe, I read the poem ‘Thermopylae’ by ...