Choosing the right words was a gift that Everett Hoagland, the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, had and used to create a ...

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

Langston Hughes appears again on our list of inspirational poems, and rightfully so. He was the first African American person to make a living by writing poetry, turning his dreams into a reality.

Irony is not a creation of modern times, though it has evolved with them. Classical poets like Jonathan Swift and T.S. Eliot used irony as a powerful instrument. Swift’s infamous satire, A Modest ...

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 ...

TOMORROW’S WORLD has announced, Harlem Renaissance: A 100 Year Revolution, set to mark the centenary of the Harlem ...

"There is not one American experience! … Let us resist the persistent push to limit the narrative of our nation’s past," ...

"Our communities should not have to rest on one or two people. But what’s more, the fracturing has to end," Tai Amri ...

Recommended by: Grace Schulman As a 19th-century priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote devotional poetry, desiring fervently to be close to God while also contemplating the complexities of piety ...

Friday's closing ceremony for the Danville Rotary Club’s Field of Honor — now something of a summer tradition in the city — ...

Nearly two and a half centuries ago — in an era of quill pens, muskets and horse-drawn conveyances — America became the first modern democracy, founded on a belief in ...