These 15 stories by Jonas Kreppel feature the “Yiddish Sherlock Holmes” who saves Jews from various plights within the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the early 20th century.

Among the knotty metaphysical poets who populated the first literary generation after Shakespeare, John Donne (1572–1631) is easily the knottiest. His poems are marvels of mental engineering, ...

Numerous carvings and writings in several languages have been found on the barracks walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station. The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings are poems ...

To conclude its week of work from living poets, the “Poem of the Day” feature of The New York Sun turns to Dana Gioia — as distinguished a poet as America can boast. The former chair of the National ...

Hundreds of heartfelt poems were carved into the walls by those detained at Angel Island's Immigration Station during an era when it was U.S. government policy to drastically limit the number of ...

“Leaving behind my writing brush and / removing my sword, I came to America. Who was to know two streams of tears would / flow upon arriving here?” (Poem 35). These were the words written by a Chinese ...

Each of the past several years, Columbia’s poet laureate, Ed Madden, has prepared a poem in honor of the city to read before Mayor Steve Benjamin’s agenda-setting State of the City address. As ...

THAILAND: British schoolgirl Tilly Smith, dubbed the "Angel of the Beach" for saving scores of lives with her tsunami warning… THAILAND: British schoolgirl Tilly Smith, dubbed the "Angel of the Beach" ...