Jane Ellen Ibur writes a poem nearly every day. Today is No. 3,014. She been at it for roughly nine years.“It keeps me limber, like working out every day for your sport,” she said. “If you’re a pitcher, you have to keep your arm loose. I feel...

Spinning for good When Lory Cooper won a private party at Cyclebar, an indoor spinning and cycling franchise with a location in Creve Coeur, she started brainstorming some ideas to make the event a fundraiser. “I wanted to do something that was meaningful...

For millennia, Jews have studied, restudied, interpreted and been inspired by the familiar stories of the Hebrew Bible. While most of the Bible is in prose form, some powerful poems are in it, including “The Song of Songs,” a lyrical, erotic love...

Howard Schwartz is well known not only in his native St. Louis, but worldwide as a leading American Jewish poet, essayist, novelist and editor, an expert on Jewish folklore and mythology. He recently co-edited, with Barbara Raznick, "Winter Harvest,"...