Mihai Eminescu, Romania’s celebrated national poet, described actual places in many of his poems, and some can still be ...

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Autumn’s leaf showers are well under way and many suburbanites are blowing, raking, bagging, vacuuming, cursing and sending the leaves away. Bulging bags of leaves and piles awaiting vacuuming line ...

In honor of the city's bicentennial in 2025, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell wrote a series of poems centered on the ...

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There is nothing in this world comparable to a used bookstore: stacks of aged books with vintage covers, shelves bursting as you try to widdle out the copy you actually want, fluorescent lighting ...

I started writing poetry and songs in high school, which was about twenty years ago. Writing has always been a creative outlet for me. I am drawn mostly to country music because it lends itself to ...

Leaves changing colors is one of the most iconic parts of autumn in the United States, and there's still time to catch stunning fall foliage before trees become totally bare leading into winter. But ...

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As autumn leaves continue to fall, the yearly debate arrives - is it best to "leave the leaves?" For many Americans, raking leaves in the fall to be burned or bagged and collected is a fact of life, ...

This is the time of year when Nicole Hughes gets constantly distracted by the fall foliage as she drives around North Carolina. "I'm always looking," says Hughes, a biologist at High Point University.