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

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

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.

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 ...

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

Derrick Barnes felt there wasn't wide enough representation of Black people in the books he read as a kid. The Kansas City ...

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

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 ...

From heartfelt 19th-century letters to Swiftie bracelets, a UC Berkeley American studies course looks at the ways we’ve found connection with each other throughout history and examines the role of ...

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