Why is it in the twilight of newspapers that story-telling is ascendant? The SMU's Newcomers Institute, by the School of Education and Human Development, continued Saturday, and two of the most gripping presentations were by those who told their...
I wanted to open my day with poetry. Birdsong had already done its warm-up act. So I went to hear the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, the daugher of a Palestinian father and an American mother. She spoke of poetry that...
Intelligence has no gender. That was the rallying passion for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th century nun who fought to be educated. And a chain of homages to her poetry, her prose and her spirit are linking...