I didn’t live through the Christmas of 1929, but growing up in Nogales, the border was always there—constant, imposing, ...

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Twenty-twenty was a perfect year to do just that.” ...

Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, ...

Lesson Plans & Resources Thanksgiving with Richard Blanco’s “América” In his poem "América," Richard Blanco brings us into the experience of Thanksgiving celebrated by an extended Cuban American ...

This is the house of Bedlam. This is the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the time of the tragic man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is a ...

The flame consume my dwelling place. And when I could no longer look, I blest his grace that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was, and so ’twas just. It was his own; it ...

Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous hat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat for show. I am thinking of his private bathing cap, which in all honesty ...

It flung up momently the sacred river.

“We are foot soldiers in the war against climate change, and we are losing. Like most soldiers, we lean on the entire universe of language to buttress us—from songs to smutty limericks. But we long ...