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Poetry against Terrorism: ‘Your house will refuse you’

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Heaney's Not-British Identity: Northern Irish Poet Explores Irishness in Early Poem "Traditions"

By: Caitlin Ward

Ono no Komachi, Legendary Poet: Writer, Beauty, Celebrity, Her Scandalous Reputation Endures

By: Helen McCarthy

Paramahansa Yogananda's Gita: An Exalted Explication

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The Story of Savitri and Satyavan: The Triumph of Love Over Death as Told in a Great Classic Epic Poem

By: Natalie Artemas-Polak

Ancient Egyptian Poem: ‘Your Love, Dear Man, is as Lovely to Me’

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Mickiewicz’s Epic Poem Pan Tadeusz: The Most Famous Work of One of Poland’s great Romanticists

By: Natalie Artemas-Polak

Harpur’s ‘The Battle of Life’: Advice for the Struggle of Life

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Back’s ‘Her Hands’: Grief that Shrinks and Silences

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Profile - Rachel Tzvia Back: American-Born Israeli Poet

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

McKay's 'America': A Testimony of Love and Hate

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Gloria’s 'To the Man I Married': He is Her Earth

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Tiempo’s 'Bonsai': Sublimating Nature

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

A Devotee’s Cry: ‘Speak to me now, O Lord’

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Pikes Peak: A Spiritual Journey

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

‘Invisible Mother’: A Poem by Paramahansa Yogananda

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Solacing Eyes: Image and Symbol

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Divine Oneness: Paramahansa Yogananda’s ‘The Splinters of Thy Love’

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The Ern Malley Caper: Mission Accomplished Down Under

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

José Rizal’s ‘My Last Farewell’: Poet as National Hero

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Agi Mishol’s ‘Woman Martyr’: Poem about a Woman Suicide Bomber

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Teresa of Ávila: Mystical Poet

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Affirmations and Poetry: The Poetry of Concentration

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Maya’s Delusion: Paramahansa Yogananda’s ‘Shadows’

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

The Tattered Dress: Two Poems on Death

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Yogananda's 'When Will He Come?': When Will I Know Spirit?

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Living for Spirit: Paramahansa Yogananda’s “I Was Made for Thee”

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Yogananda’s 'The Harvest': Motivating the Spiritual Journey

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

God Speaks in a Poem: A Timeless Mystery

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Poetry and Meditation: The Efficacy of Silence

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Yehuda Amichai: Israeli Poet

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Abdel Wahab al-Bayati: Iraqi Poet

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Rabindranath Tagore: Indian Nobel Laureate

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Reconciling Death: Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” and Yogananda’s “The Dying Youth’s Divine Reply”

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

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