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 ...

Students from the Langston Hughes Community Poetry Collective in rehearsal for DECAMERON, PROVIDENCE; presented by The Wilbury Theatre Group and WaterFire Providence (photo by Erin X. Smithers).

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

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In 'Requiem,' her fifth book, Virginia Konchan takes the sacred seriously. She’s jocular with her subjects, including God, ...

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

The Black Comic Book Festival and the Schomburg Literary Festival ran across a full day and featured readings, panel ...

Derrick Barnes felt there wasn't wide enough representation of Black people in the books he read as a kid. The Kansas City native's new picture book, “I Got You,” is ...

Gospel singer BB Winans performs with the IN UNISON Chorus and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in February 2024 for the “Lift Every Voice and Sing” concert. He will return for a benefit concert for ...

Bassist, composer, and one of two singers of Ecce Shnak, Roush has a taste for the experimental in his list of influential ...