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Yashvi Javia and Helen Cox talk with Isavel Mendoza, the winner of the Poetry Out Loud national competition, to talk about ...
Inspired by the cleansing water of spiritual baths, aja monet's new poetry collection "Florida Water" explores ways a poem can rinse, unravel and reveal hard truths.
NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT Matwaala, the pioneering South Asian diaspora poetry collective, is celebrating its 10th anniversary ...
Wardlow recently performed spoken word poetry at a gala for Release, an Omaha non-profit social service agency that does ...
Taylor Swift’s ex Matty Healy appeared to take a jab at the singer and her album The Tortured Poets Department during his ...
Urdu poetry still inspires people. While finding a sher or shayar is an issue, some platforms are giving a renewed push to a ...
Tank and the Bangas play tonight at Belly Up as part of the JAS June Experience. The group won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word ...
Barbara Holdridge and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of such famous writers as Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot reciting their work. Holdridge died Monday at 95.
She’s a bona fide poet from an era of brash, harsh rock music. In the context of 90s and 2000s popular music, she often falls through the cracks in favor of the era’s showier pop icons.
The event, “Schooled on Poetry,” will also feature readings by local and national poets. The students are part of a yearlong spoken-word project led by poet-educator Peter Kahn.
After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve taught in the past, and they might say a whole month dedicated to ...
Malik Yusef overcame a mountain of challenges that for many might seem insurmountable — disabilities, poverty, violence, gangs — propelled by his love of poetry. As Irika Sargent reports, that ...