This week’s poem is by Neil Doherty. Neil is an economist and Professor Emeritus from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has recently moved cross country to Bainbridge Island where he indulges... Read More

I’d like to sit down next to the old man on the bench in the shopping mall— the one judging the crowd as he waits for his wife to return with an armload of packages.... Read More

This week’s poem is by HNN’s Poetry Editor Daniel Thomas Moran. He is a retired dentist and Boston University Assistant Professor, former Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York and the author of seven collections... Read More

This week’s poem “October Spring” is by humanist poet Philip Appleman. Philip D. Appleman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University-Bloomington. He has published eight volumes of poetry, three novels, and half a dozen nonfiction... Read More

Science Versus Religion To understand everything, all you need is 10 numbers and 26 letters which is accurate to the exact extent that every lie has access to that same truth.   Parable of Food... Read More

This week we’re featuring the beloved humanist poet, Philip Appleman. Philip Appleman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University-Bloomington. He has published eight volumes of poetry, three novels, and half a dozen nonfiction books, including... Read More

So much you can learn from such a small space. Imagine Emily. Kant, too. it leads one to believe that to know one life truly is to know all lives really, and that to know... Read More