NPR received nearly 500 submissions from around the country and beyond from people who shared favorite memories of their ...

Margot Friedländer, who was 23-years-old when she was captured after 15 months in hiding and sent to the Theresienstadt ...

Stanley J. Kunitz, 100, who received nearly every honor that can be awarded to a poet in this country, died Sunday morning in ...

One Sunday evening, when Saba Husain was 29, a box was delivered. It was full of diaries, letters, postcards and photos...

My daughter Rachelle (Chelle) never got to be a bridesmaid for her sister Kristy’s wedding. She never got to be Auntie Chelle to her niece. I always wonder what Chelle would look like and what she ...

No one knows you like your mom. Happy Mother's Day.

When my mother Geraldine Flower died five years ago, aged 72, I was devastated and heartbroken. The only peace I felt was ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she ...

The Canadian poet, singer and songwriter’s new publication contemplates the discovery of moments of ceremony in the everyday.

In the end, we are all children, loved and nurtured by our mothers, or grandmothers, or guardians — and, of course, ...

Last Rites' sends Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) to their final haunting with their now-grown daughter, Judy ...

The carnation was originally chosen as the flower of the day, but in 1919, the high cost of carnations led to a movement to ...