DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse ...

Since 2011, tens of thousands of Syrians vanished inside the network of prisons and detention facilities run by Assad’s ...

There Lives in Me A Young Girl Who Will Not Die, by Tove Ditlevsen, is a searing account of how childhood wounds can shape ...

“I like playing with words, but I realized that a lot of people were a lot better at it than me,” she said ... buildings that people walk by every day?” she said. Poem submissions must ...

How much of my creative life is now affected by it, how many poems has the insidious smog crept ... pug marks of a passing leopard. Still we walk, deeper and deeper into grassland, treeland.

As you approach Beach Walk Cafe, nestled within the charming Henderson Park Inn, you’ll feel like you’ve stepped into the ...

It takes new experiences and other people's input to understand how your life experiences fit into the context of society as ...

I'm a dreamer, in every sense of the word. As a child, I donned my panda-bear baby blanket atop my head, strapped a gold headband around it and sang into a hairbrush, giving the performance of a ...

After an 11-year exile to Nashville, Tennessee, I finally woke up smelling Pittsburgh. I woke from dreams of flying through ...

If you met him in person, David Lynch came across as a Midwestern pastor, all gee-whiz and aw-shucks. He was one of the few people who seemed wholly incapable of irony and, hearing him talk, you’d ...

Dear White People star DeRon Horton revealed he was shot before the holiday season and is now on the mend outside of the ...