Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928. I was lucky enough to hear her speak and will never forget her power and her presence in our world.

National Pencil Day is March 30th in honor of a tool that made writing possible for the common man. Here are fun facts about pencils.

I can't. "The Year" says it all. “We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear. And that’s the burden of the year.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox I love it...

Eloquent or not... The Top Ten Quotes of 2020 Every year, Fred Shapiro, a librarian at Yale, compiles a list of the top ten quotes of the...

It’s eerie how W. H. Auden’s poem, “September 1, 1939,” written more than 80 years ago, dovetailed so precisely with September 11, 2011.

I'm celebrating Mary Oliver on her birthday, September 10th, because she gave the world a gift of her poetry.

Ray Bradbury got started with a daily writing habit after he was touched by an electrified sword in 1932.

Sylvia Plath's Wish: To Live, love, and say it well in good sentences. She never understood how well she'd said it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," commits suicide by inhaling chloroform on this on August 17, 1935.

April 13, 1909 is Eudora Welty's birthday. Welty is a Southern writer and Pulitzer-Prize winner for her novel, The Optimist's Daughter.

Jack London cut off the tip of thumb the same year he sold Call of the Wild.

The universals of human experience are reflected in Willa Cather's quote from O Pioneers. "There are only two or three human stories, and th