scholar and listener with the ability to penetrate a piece of music and describe both its effect and the composer’s intention. “She’s an unusually powerful writer,” says Richard Crawford, the dean of ...

Sister Maura Eichner, a teacher and poet recalled for her spiritual and lyrical writings, died of congestive heart failure Sunday at the School Sisters of Notre Dame retirement home in Woodbrook. She ...

Andres Henestrosa Morales, a prolific poet, essayist and journalist whose lyrical writings helped raise the cultural profile of Mexico’s indigenous people, particularly the Zapotec Indians of southern ...