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What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?
The late Memorial Art Gallery chief curator Marjorie Barkin Searl would have loved a gathering held recently in her honor.
A Phillips Collection show places the work of Washington, D.C., poet Essex Hemphill alongside artwork his life and writing inspired.
Some plays are like novels. They are complex, wide in scope and epic in nature. Others, like “Mary Jane,” playing through ...
Dennis’s inspiration for his character was, in fact, an itinerant horse trainer and sometimes labourer named William Edward ...
Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in ...
Physical Theater Festival Chicago celebrates 12 years of creating community across genres and geography, and Chicago Dance ...
On the sidewalk, I saw a splash of maroon on a grey block. SHOUT and Daily Star Books jointly organise the Slam Poetry Nights once every month to offer a platform for conversations on art ...
Allen Ginsberg's iconic poem 'Howl' begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical.
The art these objects created changed the world. The reporter’s Profile of Derek Walcott introduced me to a man whose poetry I had read and whose behavior I hadn’t expected. The article ...
Chinese musical, Shi Jing Cai Wei (Classic of Poetry), was staged in Beijing on Aug 19. Inspired by a collection of Chinese poems from the 11th to the 7th centuries BC, Chinese composer Zou Hang wrote ...
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