“Poetry is life distilled,” said longtime Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. This is concise; but what does it mean? It means, as I understand it, that poetry is a place where the rich ...

It was the French historian Pierre Nora who coined the term lieux de mémoire – “sites of memory”. He meant to suggest that ...

We are like flowers and don’t last forever. Quietly like thunder, beautifully like a river, Like a cloud, you passed through our world. You were right; Rivers will always outlive us. Grief always ...