“Back Your Boy” was a hit in Cedar Rapids, performed frequently (with audiences joining in for the chorus) and published as ...

The actress, married to Samuel L. Jackson for nearly 45 years, is up for a Tony for her role as a “professional matriarch” in one of the year’s most talked about plays.

Beginning in 1951, the Camp Heffernan pageant took the name Hiawatha, a nod to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1855 poem “The Song of Hiawatha.” ...

And it took time to believe that Longfellow had named a streamliner as well as an Indian in his poem. Fireman Wallace Edwards cracks ... his streamstyled cab window as the westbound Olympian Hiawatha ...

At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the ...

Some words may be mispronounced. HIAWATHA — When Fay Clark looked out over the farmland northwest of Cedar Rapids nearly 80 years ago, he knew it could sustain more than just crops. Clark ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

So the entire community took him outside the camp, and they pelted him to death with stones, as God had commanded Moses. God spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the Israelites and say to them that they ...

To celebrate Father’s Day, The Conversation U.S. asked Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographerKimmika Williams-Witherspoon to reflect on a poem she recently performed to accomp ...

The versatile, restless, maddeningly guileful artist Rashid Johnson—whose career-spanning survey exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” is now up at the Guggenheim, inhabiting almost the ...

Discover the story behind John William Waterhouse’s iconic paintings inspired by Tennyson’s 'The Lady of Shalott.' ...