Spring Festival, also known as Lunar New Year, is one of the most anticipated, large-scale and celebratory seasons in Chinese culture. Around this time each year, families and loved ones gather no ...

The Howe Writing Center's annual poetry contest, “Colors,” invited Miami writers to explore the multiple ways colors intersect with their lives. Presented with an array of colors, writers distilled ...

Spring break has officially dawned for most high school students throughout the Yakima Valley, barely more than two weeks after the spring season itself officially broke on the calendar. This time of ...

In Spencer Reece’s poem “Ayer,” from his new collection, Acts, the priest-poet talks about his bishop, who “had spent the day visiting churches/ and a gypsy that was begging for the host.” The worth ...

We’re super-psyched for the spring edition of the Kramers Poetry Reading Series! This time around we are featuring two local DMV poets, joined by a special guest from far-afield. Each poet will read ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

If you're having a rough go of it this spring, don't worry. I've got 11 poetry collections to read that will reflect your inner world and open you up to a whole new outer world. These books are some ...

Each spring semester, the Howe Writing Center hosts a poetry contest In honor of National Poetry Month (April). For 2023, the HWC worked with University Libraries to promote the theme of “Writing Back ...

The old saying “April showers bring May flowers” seems to have come from a poem written nearly 500 years ago. Sometime in the mid-1500s, English poet Thomas Tusser published “A Hundred Good Points of ...

Two friends of mine, very different ages and backgrounds, have shared the same spring ritual with me. They eat the first beech leaves to unfold in spring. I had never actually noticed, until they ...