New Poetry by Sarah Tisdale

I don’t consider myself a poet. Occasionally a songwriter, but barely that. The occasion of this poem was the commissioning of a new church.

As the earth falls into a deep slumber, we sit in anticipation and stillness.

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We’re excited to give you another episode in our film series. This time, we’ve partnered with Robert Allen at The War Room to bring you a...

Today, multitudes of Americans converged on a long swath of land stretching from the Oregon coast to Charleston. After a great deal of...

Interlude Here’s what I’m asking you to forget: I want you to put away from your mind the pain of Mrs. Roger’s classroom, the slick palms...

Forward Consider me an ambassador: an emissary from a foreign land, a place whose name I dare not mention for risk of causing you to turn...

For the fourth year in a row, The WordPlayers are bringing a musical production to the historic Bijou Theatre in downtown Knoxville....

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