DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the flowers ...

Art is long and life is short. Or is it the other way around? On the evidence of In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems,[1] a 258-page volume that spans sixty years of poetic productivity, ...

In Joy Harjo’s 2015 poetry collection, "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings," there’s a poem called “Rabbit Is Up to Tricks” about the origin of human folly. “Rabbit” molds and breathes life into the ...

Laura Mazza-Dixon is an environmentalist, a gifted organizer of artistic events in the Granby area, a passionate gardener, a hiker who rises early to trek the hills of Granby. She is a musician whose ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed, / And ...

"My work is loving the world." "Messenger," a poem by the American poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019), begins like this. Like those words, Oliver passionately sings of love for the world. Particularly, she ...

Prologue -- Map of the Trail of Tears -- Break My Heart -- My grandfather Monahwee -- Exile of Memory -- Granddaughters -- The Fight -- Directions to You -- Seven Generations -- In 1990 a congress -- ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover week. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the ...