In a development project as big as Sharswood, there was a lot of cement being poured. That opened up possibilities — and a ...

I dig with both hands wide – searching for words left unsaid, for songs long buried beneath black stones. There, in the heart ...

Poetry is a space to experiment with language — communications through this medium enables deeper emotional expression. This ...

Timothy McVeigh spoke to USA TODAY 10 months after his arrest for detonating a 4,800-pound bomb on the doorstep of the Oklahoma City federal building.

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...

"Possibly we need poets and philosophers to help us with what we do not know, or people we do not understand," writes Kurt ...

Nyla Meriwether, 7, above, reads poems to her mom Jazmine Meriwether as she and other Wallace Elementary first-graders shared ...

His face was chalky white and his eyes hollow. Offered the chance to speak final words, he said nothing ... Instead, he provided the warden a copy of the poem Invictus, copied in his own slanted ...

Una O’Higgins O’Malley was a woman nearing 60, with a long record of peace activism, when she discovered the names of the men ...

However, while Easter brings the message of joy, love, and resurrection, it doesn’t erase the feelings of sorrow, hopelessness, and loss that many carry.

but with no surviving words, no life in it. For me, the fire has driven home what my life’s work as a historian of antiquity has taught me, what Shelley crystallized in his poem “Ozymandias ...