Faith, Fiction, Friends

“The past is never dead,” wrote William Faulkner in  Requiem for a Nun . “It’s not even past.” One hundred and fifty-eight years after the l...

In a collection of stories, letters, poems, and speeches, I happened across “ Paul Revere’s Ride ” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It im...

Walt Whitman  (1819-1892) is known as “America’s Poet,” and for good reason. His poetry captured the spirit of a country that was growi...

Van Wyck Brooks published three related works of literary history over the span of about a decade (while he was publishing other works ...

When we read a poem, or a collection of poetry, we rarely make a connection to the poet’s geography, unless the poems are specifically ...

When I attended high school, the English curriculum was rather fixed. Ninth grade was introduction to British and American literature. Tenth...