Born in Chile on July 12, 1904, we recognize Pablo Neruda 112 years later as a political activist and eclectic poet. As a Communist holding several Chilean governmental posts, Neruda faced danger when Radical Party presidential candidate Gabriel González Videla turned against the Communist Party. After the Communist Party was banned from Chile over the course…
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The media shows us two reactions to this little, commercial holiday: 1) the lovey-dovey people feeding each other heart-shaped chocolates into their perfect, air-brushed mouths, and 2) single, bitter people, doubling down on the BOGO chocolate at the local grocery store. Many of us, however, do not adhere to that binary system and enjoy reading love stories,…
For the Power of Words, I give you Exhibit A: Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible) and Marilyn Monroe. As Exhibit B: Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children) and Padma Lakshmi. I could go on. Here are ten great lines from literature that just might help you get lucky, too. 1. “The only way to…
Four adaptations of poems set to music: some tender, some bizarre, all personal homages to poems and their masters. Enjoy! "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson Composed by Israeli singer-songwriter Efrat Ben Zur.
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my…
