It was the day before Christmas Eve, 2019, when Thomas R. Smith was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Emotionally shocked, he began to nod off after dinner and his wife, Krista Spieler, drove him to the ...

In August 1946, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin spent four days at Puck Fair in Killorglin. They were accompanied by their friends Bill and Helen McAlpine. Caitlin MacNamara, who married ...

While driving one day, the poet Thomas Lux spied a profession of love spray-painted on a girder above the highway: “I love you sweatheart.” Borrowing the graffiti phrase for a poem title, Mr. Lux ...

Shortly after 7am on April 9 1917, 39-year-old writer Edward Thomas was killed by a shell during the Battle of Arras in northern France. He left a body of mostly unpublished work that has since ...

Salyer: I’m struck by the relationship between work and a sense of grace in your poems. In ‘When I listen,’ for example, you begin with music, the ‘mourning doves in a cathedral’s rafters’ and ‘piano ...

To Truth Thomas, poetry is a way of documenting life — as is music, as is photography. “That’s what … art does. At its best, it reports on all of the ugliness and all of the beauty that life is,” he ...

2002-04-13 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Even among the bohemians of Venice Beach, John Thomas stood out. He was 6 feet 4 inches tall and 300 pounds and spoke in a rolling, resonant baritone that left no ...