The You You Are is full of other Ricken stories, including way too much information about his sex life, as well as some ...

Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas Merton. See the end of this page for Thomas Merton in Photographs. Because my will is simple as ... And the whole ...

Apple has released eight chapters of The You You Are, the fictional self help book by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale that's central to ...

Lisken Van Pelt Dus sees things we probably never saw in quite the same way, and even as we may recognize these things in our ...

This year, the world's biggest happiness study will see 30,000 volunteers try different joy-boosting activities, to find out ...

A couple summers ago I was entranced by “I don’t mind,” Brooklyn composer Cassie Wieland’s manipulated vocal suite under the ...

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

February's writer-curator on Something I Heard, Diane Raptosh, shares one of her own poems, an untitled American sonnet.

Robert Mann's new book "You Are My Sunshine” explores the iconic song and its place in the culture and history of Louisiana ...

Sonia Sanchez’s poetry is not just to be read—it is to be felt, experienced, and lived. Her work serves as both an artistic triumph and a cultural archive, documenting the beauty, pain, and power of ...