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In one of her poems, Huang wrote: "Why do you have a low voice, because you keep clean the city day after day; why do you ...

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, known for her eclectic reading habits, began her eighth budget presentation with a quote ...

Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

Central Illinoisans, I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of explaining to people that I do not live in a cornfield. Okay, ...

Claude McKay, one of the most influential figures in the Harlem Renaissance, left behind a rich collection of poetry that ...

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift the ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...