Normally when I take a bus across Central Park, I am absorbed by the astonishing fact that in 1853 New Yorkers – always known for “getting and spending” – decided to devote 843 acres of their little ...

Baseball, its late commissioner Bart Giamatti once observed, is designed to break one’s heart. Indeed, the game’s most iconic poem recounts not the home team’s triumphant victory or the exhilaration ...

In the Hues Of The Violet Garden: Irodori Festival we have a number of events, which include multiple parts of True Tales Of The Violet Garden. In each act of True Tales Of The Violet Garden, there ...

KENT, Ohio – Nearly a decade ago, Valora Renicker, an associate professor of visual communication design at Kent State University, invited her colleague David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick ...

Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

American poet and novelist, Dan Fante, wrote of first discovering Van Gogh, in his poem 7-17-93. A moment captured in time, an externalization of the internal, something abstract and vague. One can ...

The University of Arizona offers a wide variety of ways for students to get more involved within their community and within their majors. One of the College of Humanities’ main attractions, the UA ...