Yasmine JacobsPoet, author and cultural icon Dr Diana Ferrus has died at the age of 72.In a statement released on Friday, her family confirmed her death with “profound sadness and heavy hearts”.The ...

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Dear Readers: Wishing you and all a very happy holiday season. Please enjoy the following poem. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore. “‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through ...

When Emily Dickinson wrote the poem “Hope is that thing like feathers” in 1861, she couldn’t have imagined a world like we have today, so desperately in need of hope. Yet it is a modern-day reminder ...