When words are all we have, poetry becomes a lifeline that brings us closer to understanding ourselves and each other. Here ...

To honor America's 35th President of the United States, we're looking back on some of his most powerful quotes from his inauguration address and other landmark speeches. Though he spoke these words ...

Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison shares how to fill your own sack of ideas and describes what he keeps in his.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...