'Push the boundaries': Literacy advocate Zell Miller III is Austin's first poet laureate
For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...
John Green’s brand is optimism. On book tour, he’s fighting despair.
The author of “Everything Is Tuberculosis” is trying to find hope on the road as medical research funding disappears.
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The Concrete Poetics of Mary Ellen Solt
Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...
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250th Anniversary of Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death!" Speech
Search, browse and learn about the Federal Register. Federal Register 2.0 is the unofficial daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as ...
‘Give me liberty or give me death’ turns 250. Here’s what it meant in 1775
The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia ...