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Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Keira recognized him instantly as none other than Santa Claus. Santa was seated at a table laden with typewriters. There were four or five of them, all different makes and models. They ranged from ...

For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

The magazine has three golden rules: never write about writers, editors, or the magazine. On the occasion of our hundredth ...

We will review some poems and learn how words can be used to construct images of who we are." Participants will "learn how Black and African American writers have used poetry to express themselves.

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The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

My husband and I have been struggling with marital problems ever since he proposed. Before that, we got along well, but ...

Dear Abby advises on a man who has now found a new love in his life, but mentions how his oldest son has different feelings about it compared to the ...

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