Since Poetry from Daily Life began Nov. 5, you’ve met poets from Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. We began in one paper — the Springfield News-Leader — now we’re ...
It happens sometimes that you wish to listen to some music or poem while you eat, so why do we connect food and literature? Food, with its diverse textures, flavors, and cultural symbolism, becomes a ...
The cultural, emotional, and sensory aspects of the human experience are reflected by food as an effective metaphor in literature. Let’s read some ballad poems that will describe the dishes from the ...