John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the English Revolution, Milton wrote an ...

Joanne Diaz, a professor of English literature at Illinois Wesleyan University, organized a 10-hour marathon reading of John ...

Lli Pedraza wrote a poem after Benitez's two cats, who she road out Hurricane Milton with in her apartment. "It really caught what I feel in my heart," Benitez said about the poem. Benitez ...