How a poem transformed Christmas into the festive holiday it is today
The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa ...
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Will You Fall in Love With This Poem? I Did.
Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing. The author and her friend, a scholar, are debating the crushworthiness of a certain ...
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Gary Oldman voices Christmas poem for MI5
MI5 has released a special version of the festive poem The night before Christmas, read by actor Gary Oldman. In the voice ...
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Silent wife: The poem that teaches Cambodian teens to accept domestic violence
In a 2019 review of Cambodia, the United Nations called for an end to “social norms that justify gender-based violence”, including the abolition of the Chbap Srey, a poem that is a “root ...
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Publishing famous Christmas Eve poem is Forum tradition nearly a century old
Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." For almost half of that time, Forum readers have enjoyed seeing the famous words on the front page of the Christmas Eve edition. Originally titled ...
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Guggenheim Offers the Poetry of Motion: Sign Language Verses
The museum’s poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing ... Under the radar, he amassed old masters, leaving 331 to the Clark Art Institute. How did he do it?
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The story behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘poem turned carol’ — and a ‘wonderful time of the year’ to all
By Chip Hutchieson Kentucky Today A song often heard as Christmas approaches is that the holiday “is the most wonderful time ...
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The best Canadian poetry of 2024
Scientific Marvel is a poetry book by Chimwemwe Undi. (House of Anansi Press, Imalka Nilmalgoda) Scientific Marvel is a poetry collection that looks into the history of and current life in Winnipeg.