One might say that Montgomery originated an Irish form of jazz-inspired sound poetry distinguished by its polyphony. The ...

Two Philadelphia artists – a photographer and a performance poet – combine their shared passion for observing and documenting ...

While everything else about school faded away, segments of poems I once drank in as nectar in English class still float into my mind.

and Eliza Cook’s 1840 poem “The Christmas Holly” is an ode to the merriment that the plant can bring. The English poet came from a modest working-class family and was a huge advocate for ...

Southwest English mythology holds that on Christmas Eve, all the animals kneel in adoration of the infant Jesus. The poem begins with a memory of the speaker’s childhood: “Christmas Eve, and twelve of ...

The famous Christmas poem above — nearly everybody calls it ... been written by Henry Livingston Jr. as early as 1807. The English language has changed a bit since 1822.

In 2016, MacDonald Jackson, an English professor emeritus from the University ... “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” has become a cherished Christmas tradition in many households, where the poem is ...

“The English name for the holiday ... Interestingly, Clement Moore’s prized poem, “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” references “The stockings were hung by the chimney with care ...

The word “love” is used in English to describe many things ... Most of all, the fourth Advent theme reminds me of the all-encompassing love of God. Christmas is a Christian holy day, that has been ...

The first known reference to smooching under the plant dates to a 1784 English poem, in which three men “kiss beneath the mistletoe” the lips of a “girl not turn’d of twenty.” ...