Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

FLINT, MI -- Kameron Motley, who grew up on the city’s north side, identifies with the word “Fearless.” It’s a mentality that you have to have as a student with lofty goals from Flint, a city that is ...

Fear is the mind killer. This is the striking first line in the Bene Gesserit litany against fear. Dune fans have long been entranced by the litany’s power, and many of them have even tried to use it.

Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. Monroe's "Open Door" policy, set forth in Volume I of the magazine, remains ...

If you besiege a city for many days, to wage war against it in order to capture it, you must not destroy its fruit trees by wielding an ax against them… ~ Deuteronomy 20:19 tearing out or cutting down ...

"Tis harder knowing fear is due / Than knowing it is here," sings neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux with his band The Amygdaloids. The song, an adaptation of Emily Dickinson's poem "While we were fearing, ...

Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face was radiant. They were afraid to approach him. ~ Exodus 34:30 this glow of history and promise. It frightens the neighbors.