Dear Ann Landers: Here is a copy of a column of yours that gave me the strength to face my troubles and get through the day. When I couldn’t sleep at night, I would get up and go out to the kitchen ...

It is just an everyday occurrence for some of us. But few know of it because we do not fuss. So normal that we just take it in stride, And keep our silence to others, because of our pride. Learning to ...

One of the poems that gave me strength over these many years has become the title of a movie by Clint Eastwood. Starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, the movie is out this week. The poem that ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

Last year, as we approached the 200th birth year of the poet Walt Whitman, Joy Harjo — now the poet laureate of the United States — selected Emily Skaja’s “Brute” to win the Walt Whitman Award, an ...

A poem from a mother to her daughter after her breast cancer diagnosis. My daughter, Jill, had become a talented rock-painting hobbyist long before her diagnosis of breast cancer. She always left her ...