Whether in "Beowulf" or in contemporary literature (or in "Frankenstein," for that matter), creatures matter!! If you like MONSTERS, de-MONSTRATE, your support for Sigma and for literature!

Shakespeare wrote 154, Petrarch about 317. Help students read them all... and write one or two as well. "Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive these powerful rhymes."

“Write what should not be forgotten.”-- Isabel Allende. Fiction is, as readers know, always an appeal to "truth." Jane Austen adds, perhaps a little harshly, "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” Let's create novel (and smart) ideas together!

John Milton wrote "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” Elizabeth Barrett Brewing reminds us that "A cheerful genius suits the times, /And all true poets laugh unquenchably." Make an "epic" donation and enjoy unquenchable laughter and heavenly thoughts.