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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the flowers ...

CIARAN CARSON is one of the most accomplished among the astonishing number of formidable poets who have issued from Ulster over the last three generations. In his elegy on the death of Yeats, Auden ...

Poet, writer and musician Joy Harjo — a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation — often draws on Native American stories, languages and myths. But she says that she's not self-consciously trying to bring ...