Research boat will scan seabed to help search for those missing in Spain's floods
A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been abruptly diverted from its usual task to help in the ...
Compassion amid chaos − how one of America’s greatest poets became a lifeline for wounded soldiers
Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, ...
At least 2 dead and 12 missing after a fishing boat sinks off South Korea’s Jeju island
A fishing boat has capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea’s Jeju island, leaving at least two people dead and 12 ...
Deep Water: ‘Split,’ by Matthew Bernier
Bernier works as a civil and environmental engineer, restoring sea-run fish, including endangered Atlantic salmon, to Maine rivers through projects like dam removals. His poems have appeared in the ...
Military.com1d
Silence Was My Father’s Fortress. I Shared It for a Time Until Poetry Set Me Free.
When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...
The New Yorker7d
Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary Takedown
Her reviews are not contemptuous, a common pitfall for her imitators. They are simply unbridled in their dislike.
The Michigan Daily9d
Love letter to my (very real) English major
The beauty of words and their power will always illuminate the most precious things in my life and heal the most painful ...
Central Western Daily15d
NZ military eyes patrol ship to replace sunken vessel
New Zealand is looking to return to operation one of its idled offshore patrol vessels after a specialist dive ship sank, a defence spokesperson says.
Riverine Herald15d
NZ military eyes patrol ship to replace sunken vessel
New Zealand Defence Force hydrographic ship Manawanui sank on a reef it was surveying off Samoa. -AP New Zealand is looking to return to operation one of its idled offshore patrol vessels after a ...