James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a ...

The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

Introducing Jesus to a new generation of moviegoers was a task Cecil B. DeMille undertook with the utmost sincerity. The ...

Celebrate what would’ve been his 67th birthday with Body Rock ATX, a monthly event turning 15 this year founded by Riders ...

Nathan Kernan’s biography of the New York School poet tracks the development of his serene and joyful work alongside the ...

After his first poem, The Haulier’s Wife Meets Jesus on the Road Near Moone ... two young Irish poets in uniforms and peaked hats being dispatched to guard a financial institution and an ...

Lu Dongbin was born in China in the eighth century CE. He was a prominent scholar and poet, alleged to have performed miracles. His poems are collected in The ... Beyond simply being interesting ...

A festival of “music, poetry ... Handsworth-born dub poet, who appeared in hit BBC show Peaky Blinders as Jeremiah Jesus, died at the age of 65 in December 2023, shortly after being diagnosed ...

In his 1912 poem “Out of Debt,” Jamaican American and Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay writes from the perspective of a father who rejoices in being debt ... the birth of Jesus Christ ...

"I didn't realize this until later in life, but [I was] being affected by the spoken word ... father from getting a vasectomy before Choi was born. Choi's mother had lost a lot of blood while ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heather Lende ... She is more at home being helpful than being “preachy.” A unique fact about her is that she survived being run over by ...