The album, out on 7/11 from Blue LLama Records interweaves classic poetry with timeless music. We spoke with Harris about the ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Big changes are in store for East Harlem as the MTA ramps up work on the long-awaited extension of the Second Avenue subway.

Concord unleashed to the world America's musical contributions, which sprang from our universal appeal as a nation.

Let’s keep things light this month, shall we? Some of the fun offerings on Seattle stages this summer include circus arts, a classic mystery, high-energy musicals and a whirlwind new-play project that ...

On an overcast Friday afternoon, with rain clouds threatening overhead, a large, blue bus pulled into Falls Church’s Eden ...

Rural communities too often awaken from the American dream to find that it has vanished. Opportunities that once kept their best and brightest at home shrivel to the point that the communities they ...

Stephanie Burt discusses the transformative power of queer poetry in her anthology "Super Gay Poems" in an exclusive interview.

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

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With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...