The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to [email protected] with the subject line "Poetry submission." ...

Poems can evoke laughter, tears, and thoughtful reflection. Recent research has shown their therapeutic effects: how they can reduce stress, relieve grief, and increase well-being.

Happiness has a history. I study emotions and early modern literature, so I spend a lot of my time thinking about what Shakespeare has to say about what makes people happy, in his own time and in our ...

Yes! I thought, as I read these lines from the Russian American poet Joseph Brodsky in a 1989 love poem, “A Song.” There’s something about the ineffable beauty of life that formal knowledge misses. So ...

My husband Gary and I met when we were 9 and 10 years old. We became closer later, when we were 14 and 16 years old, and ...

It was like everything I had said, I was stamping over another woman’s rights for my own happiness. I think people who followed me as a feminist had every right to feel that.” While her followers were ...

A lot of us learned about the revolutionary sprint through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s iconic poem that begins, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” ...

It actually brings a lot of joy and happiness to my life. I find it super important and recharging. And also it stimulates a lot of your thinking. It's an opportunity to learn so many new things.

In a Facebook post, he wrote that the poem emphasises how true happiness does not stem from material riches or worldly entertainment, but from awareness of the divine and a sincere relationship with ...