For generations, women have been operating lighthouses across the country, saving lives and keeping history. John Yang reports from the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the U.S. Pacific ...

Short poems like this one may not be top of mind when considering funeral poetry, but it’s a moving option for those who are grieving. But thine are all my tears since thou art dead. To ...

But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and, for lack of a better term, job-oriented), has his eyes on his mission to found a new city for his people ...

For more than a century, the unexplained disappearance of three lighthouse keepers has remained ... left its mark on popular culture, influencing poems, a Doctor Who episode, a song by Genesis ...

after it featured in the hit 1994 romcom Four Weddings and a Funeral. But if it is unusual for a poem to escape the confines of the world of literature, it's virtually unheard of for one to ...

Announcing the Eighth Annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest! How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can journalism and poetry help us ...

People living near Land's End have been advised to buy earplugs due to a lighthouse's broken fog alarm. Longships Lighthouse has been sounding a loud beep every 13 seconds for the past week.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “96 Vandam,” by Gerald Stern, and his own poem “Man on a Fire Escape.” The poets talk about “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker.” ...

Like many funeral poems that give comfort to the grieving, Dickinson’s piece—and the final stanza, in particular—suggests the dead might live on in the afterlife. An icon of his time ...

At a packed Saint Brigid’s Church in Corofin, in a heartbreaking poem penned by herself addressed ... things - they were so good". The joint funeral mass for the couple was celebrated four ...

Read our full commerce guidelines here. What is the correct etiquette when it comes to choosing what to wear to a funeral? Sadly, it's something many of us have had to consider at one moment or ...