The centennial of Robert Owens, a composer who worked abroad and assimilated into German culture, is being celebrated with a festival in Nebraska.

In solidarity with three other D.C. universities, Georgetown, American and George Washington, hundreds of students and faculty participated in a walkout to protest the federal occupation of the ...

She put aside a bunch of projects, including a book about Walt Whitman, to publish “Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift.” ...

Darren Walker has spent much of his life fighting inequality. From humble beginnings in rural Texas, he went on to lead one ...

Charles Coe, a poet, author, and master writing teacher, discussed the history of poetry as an agent for political and social change at the Monadnock Summer Lyceum, while also sharing his own poems ...

This is not just about displays in the Smithsonian. America will never move forward, nor heal, as a society of diverse people ...

Here’s a safe bet: If you’re the parent of a middle schooler, you probably don’t share Alice Gustafson’s concern that your child might need a little more experience playing video games. To be sure, it ...

The idea of the titular Crow in Ted Hughes’ poems is wild, untameable and irreducible to words. In an early poem in the sequence, words come at Crow from all angles but he just ignores them. Finally, ...

In the midst of the second act of Quantum Theatre’s “Seagull” on Sunday night, I was reminded of the first half of the Langston Hughes poem “Dreams”: “Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is ...

Chip Williford, the director and co-host of the Riverhead-based Poetry Street, has been named Suffolk County Poet Laureate. The appointment of Williford as Suffolk County’s 12th poet laureate earlier ...

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