The Town of Western Historical Society announced a special music performance by Craobh Dugan-O’Looney, a band known for its ...

Alice Notley, a much-laureled American poet who found inspiration for her challenging, probing works in sources as disparate ...

At the age of 12, Juan de la Rua experienced the power of poetry. Upon hearing the poem, “The Slave,” which expresses the dream of freedom of an imprisoned slave, he understood just what a poem could ...

Near the end of one of Nikki Giovanni’s well-known poems “Ego Tripping,” she writes, “I cannot be comprehended without my ...

Rajmata Ahilyadevi Holkar, known for her wisdom, justice, and devotion, ruled the Malwa kingdom with great integrity and is ...

The late Memorial Art Gallery chief curator Marjorie Barkin Searl would have loved a gathering held recently in her honor.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Marilyn Singer ... I came up with "Follow the Recipe: Poems about Imagination, Celebration, and Cake" (Dial, 2020, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic ... unfolds a welcome array of poems about his own queer, complicated, sociable life in New Haven and Toronto ...

The spring festival’s focus is fertility and new life, so it’s appropriate that ... The table also can include a Koran, eggs, mirrors, and poetry. Though Nowruz is old, the table tradition ...

Autumn Bushman’s Celebration of Life, held at Berglund Center on Sunday ... Mark Bushman closed by reading “A Child of Mine,” a poem by Edgar Albert Guest that someone from Michigan sent ...

not celebration. In the piece “what can a poem do?,” even professional poet Darius V. Daughtry seems to agree. Right away, he admits the difficult truth: No matter how much you enjoy it, a poem can’t ...