A woman has shared the meaningful note that she received when she adopted her dog. Hope Ervin, 21, from Galesburg, Illinois, told FOX News that she and her boyfriend adopted Sylvie, a Shiba Inu, in ...

Magdalena Zurawski’s intrepid use of caesura — a pause in a line of poetry — reinforces the theme of disciplined attention in “[Dog Is a Way of Thinking].” The poem’s frequent midline interruptions of ...

In this sound portrait, we meet poet BJ Love. He talks about finding inspiration in small moments of everyday life, being married to another poet and how poetry is like a time machine. He reads his ...

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A column I wrote about my dog, Gracie, was recently published and I've been pleasantly surprised by the outpouring of kind words and support from readers. As I explained, Gracie has degenerative ...

Dear Annie: You printed an essay about a year ago regarding the loss of a pet from the pet’s point of view. I’m sorry, but that’s all I remember. I recall the way that poem made me feel. I hope you ...

He opens his eyes and draws a new breath. Why, only last night he was hit by a truck. It seemed that Lucky had run out of luck. I carried him home and said my goodbye. He licked at my tears as I ...

British comic Hegley composes nearly 50 eccentric poems about cornflakes, bullies and other seemingly unrelated topics. All his poems rely on surprise, whether in terms of events or skewed, stuttering ...

I like the look of candy canes sitting in a jar at Christmas time. I use them as decorations on wrapped packages and as ornaments on the tree. I rarely eat them. Neither do the two other human members ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...