Tag: Poems
How poetry can help people get through hard times – 4...
Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “We Lived Happily During the...
How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry
Jason Miller, North Carolina State University
In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been...
Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time
Matthew Redmond, Stanford University
Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms.
She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired...
What’s behind our appetite for self-destruction?
Mark Canada, Indiana University and Christina Downey, Indiana University
Each new year, people vow to put an end to self-destructive habits like smoking, overeating or...
EXPLORING NATURE
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...
Ellen Welti, Smithsonian Institution
More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend...
