If you have ever been in the enviable position of considering the difference between happiness and joy, you might find yourself nodding when the latter is characterized as being wilder and more ...

Simone Weil says in a passage quoted in this anthology, “A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it.” Using Weil’s definition, this is the most real collection of poetry ...

In Joy Harjo’s 2015 poetry collection, "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings," there’s a poem called “Rabbit Is Up to Tricks” about the origin of human folly. “Rabbit” molds and breathes life into the ...

William Butler Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is about the allure of an imagined refuge. The poem’s distressed urban speaker fantasizes about fleeing the city and retreating to an idyllic Irish ...

NORTH CAROLINA, NC, UNITED STATES, November 19, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Poems for Praise, Comfort, and Joy: Volume I by Ronald Jirovec, published by Kravitz & Sons ...

In the church where I was raised, adults made a sharp distinction between joy and happiness. Happiness felt good, but it was temporary, and because it was temporary, there was something about it not ...

Caleb Cano is a student at RCTC taking a creative writing class. He was asked to write a poem based on his childhood. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send ...

“The author is dead!” has been a consistent postmodernist refrain discouraging readers from reducing meanings of literary works to mere biographical outlines of their authors. Joy Ladin’s ...

For a man who was told he’d never be successful, my friend William Sherrill has done well. He’s not rich or famous. He doesn’t head an important company or have a mansion on a hill. He is an Air Force ...