Olga Ravn’s “Fourth poem from the second continuation,” from her new novel, “My Work,” evokes motherhood as negative capability — the capacity, as John Keats described it, to dwell in “uncertainties, ...
Abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass gave his powerful “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 172 years ago. The speech was a powerful illustration of the disparity between the ...
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are 25 words worth? If you’re Ambuehl Elementary School fourth-grader David Duplissey, the right 25 words are worth a quarter-carat ...