Sonnet to My Mother by George Barker is the type of poem that rolls off the tongue, making it a good choice for a reading at ...

While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals, this literary domain is vast, encompassing everything from the love poems we send our sweethearts on Valentine's Day to the funeral poems ...

Poets who compile anthologies--or even reading lists--should be scrupulously honest in including only poems they genuinely ... Let's build a funeral pyre out of the dessicated conventions piled ...

"It's counterintuitive, perhaps, but obituaries have next to nothing do with death and absolutely everything to do with life." But at my hometown newspaper, I penned well over 100 obits over the ...

speaking last at the funeral, shared that he, too, had received Valentine’s cards from Ethel Kennedy, including one with “a picture of me and Ethel surrounded by hearts” and a poem reading ...

In the opening chapter of My City, the narrator, Ah Guo (or Fruit), describes the funeral of his father in ... essays, and poems that helped consolidate her place in the city’s literary landscape.

His coffin was carried into the busy church to a funeral hymn based on the poem Crossing the Bar by Lord Tennyson. The remainder of the service featured hymns, readings, poetry, and a solo cello ...

Suzy Byrne pictured at Gay Byrne's funeral in November 2019 She added ... "That didn't just happen, you'd hear her reading ...

Mosley, a detective sergeant with the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office, died Oct. 15 when she was shot during what ...

On Thursday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 26, Roderick Cox will conduct the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It’s a familiar podium for the fiery young guest conductor and an opportunity to delve into an ...

Close friends and family have paid tribute to cancer campaigner Dame Deborah James at a private funeral ... BST at St Mary's Church in Barnes with readings and music from relatives.