Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt pours herself a cup of hot coffee. She takes a look outside at the scenery around her new home ...

We hope you enjoy Poetry Out Loud ... it's called "A Noiseless Patient Spider," an extended metaphor poem. And we're comparing a spider out on a lake, casting its webs, being very patient ...

Lyric Theatre is staging Mexican American writer Octavio Solis' acclaimed play through April 19 in OKC's Plaza District.

A conceit in poetry refers to an extended metaphor, often unexpected or unconventional ... and the courage to hope again. What Angelou captures so beautifully is the complexity of romantic ...

From the quiet visions of prophets to the thunderous cries of revolutionaries, it is courageous, purpose-driven speech that ...

The ANC acts as if it alone enjoys legitimacy, while the DA acts as if its electoral support entitles it to override the views of others, says Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba during his Easter Vigil ...

If you will allow a domestic metaphor, consider that every action ... No one knows what ignites the wood frog’s heartbeat after this extended spell of suspension. But it might be that the ...

The author’s iconic ‘Buru Quartet’ about the independence struggle against the Dutch colonial rule was banned in Indonesia till as recently as 2010.

Let's hope I can make it work ... And instantly thereafter, the synapses connected, and I realized that I had a metaphor of oppression much closer to my own past -- the entire Nazi project ...