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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with poet and video game designer Keith S. Wilson about his new collection of poetry, Fieldnotes On Ordinary Love, which ...

In a romantic confession, a man gave a love poem written on a mango to his bus driver. However, the woman is already married, and wished the man the best.

May is National Foster Care Month, and unfortunately, Arizona has some pretty grim statistics when it comes to foster care. The state leads the nation in.

The poems in 'Love Without A Story' allow us to peep into intimate moments that we were perhaps not supposed to be part of.

Through the Love in the Street art initiative, Louisville poets had their words of affection for the city etched into the sidewalk on Fourth Street.

One day in 1855, while pondering his evening commute on a New York ferry, Walt Whitman took out his notebook and jotted down thoughts for a poem, about ...

LOS ANGELES — The first sample that the Chemical Brothers locked down when building their new record, “No Geography,” made its way into the present from ...

Are we writing for other disabled people, for the nondisabled, or for everyone? The work of these poets speaks for itself.

Richard Blanco, who read at President Obama's second inauguration, wrestles with the contradictions of American history in his latest book of poems, “How to ...

Name: Kimberly S. Slayman. Age: 51. City in which you reside: Waynesboro, Pa. Day job: Retired. Book title: “Light as a Feather”. Genre: Inspirational poetry.

“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art,” I whispered into my partner's ear like a dweeb. I was prepared for laughter, at best. Until then, I'd always followed ...

GREENFIELD — Finalists in the 28th annual Poet's Seat Poetry Contest, ranging from teenagers to adults, recited personal stories of love, loss and joy at ...

Poets explore how the artform can unite people on different sides of conflict.

Lounge picks five recent collections of poetry that move between the past and the present, private and political .From exquisite lyrics to lines burning with ...

Looks like this year, April showers brought April flowers. As in, a bouquet of outstanding poets. So stop and smell the roses, my friends.

Every year for four years, Northfield, Minn., student Isabella Callery has entered the Poetry Out Loud competition. And every year for three years she got as far as ...

Chassidy Jade began making videos at age 15 and now directs a Memphis collective to help other creatives expand their reach. Get to know today's new FACE!

A church warden sent love letters to the elderly neighbour of the man he was engaged to in order to "woo" her and benefit from her will, a court heard. Benjamin ...

Poetry collections by Mary Oliver, Nikita Gill, Lin-Manuel Miranda and more top our list of must-listen audiobooks.

I love being in front of an audience. As a true-to-form Aries sun, Leo rising, I've done everything — given hour-long speeches with ease, gone on TV to promote ...

Get ideas for your 2019 Mother's Day cards with these poems and quotes to Mom that say "I love you."

I'll admit, at first I was put off by the contemporary style of writer/director Madeleine Olnek's revisionist biopic of Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights with Emily.

Writing verse might come naturally for most rappers, but few of them have their poetry published before they hit the charts. Yet Jamila Woods is not your average ...

Richard Blanco was the fifth inaugural poet, reading at the swearing-in of former President Barack Obama. In his latest book, "How To Love A Country," Blanco ...

In a story read at Mass on the First Sunday after Easter, Thomas says it's malarkey when his buddies tell him they saw Jesus, who had come back from the dead.

Former Manhattanite Charles Melton has had a term as an actor in broadcast television series. He comes to the big screen in a competent little romance called ...

WILMOT -- With a serendipity-filled backstory that would make the late Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon smile, friends of the poetic couple are busy transforming ...

Poet James Cagney was 19 when he found out he was adopted. A few years later, both of his parents passed away, and Cagney was left homeless. He reflects ...

Spelman College graduated 474 members of the Class of 2019 on Sunday, as 9000 family members and f...

As many writers do, Angela Yuriko Smith had been submitting her fiction and poetry works to various publications last year when she came across a notice in ...

At East Washington Academy (EWA), third graders were engaged in an artsy literary project this school year — writing haikus, painting cherry blossoms and ...

ReadingRoom introduces its Weekend Poem: first-up Hadassah Grace.

The goal of Poetry Out Loud is to spark students' interest in poetry through exploring the works of great poets.

Tombstone by Greg Delanty and A Gentleman Caller by Alannah Hopkin.

An award-winning local poet, photographer and writer has released a collection of poems and images.

Richard Blanco, the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history, joined Boston Public Radio last week for another edition of "Village Voice," and to talk about ...

Adrienne Rich, poet and activist, would have been 90 years old on May 16. She passed away in 2012.

Hong Kong-based sales agent Asian Shadows has picked up international rights to two titles from rising Chinese talents – Liu Shu's Lost Lotus and Wang ...

Art x Love, an Akron-based fine arts branding company, on Saturday installed paintings of famous Akronites LeBron James and Rita Dove at the Maple Valley ...

Robert Indiana didn't look pleased. It was September 2008, and the two men who controlled most of the income and created much of the angst in Indiana's life ...

First up, after a 6-year old and his mother were killed in a hit-and-run, East Oakland residents demand a traffic light. Then, Oakland poet James Cagney on.

Maine-based poet Richard Blanco was the youngest, first Latino, first immigrant and first openly gay person to serve as an inaugural poet when he was tapped to ...

Louis Briffa: Bil-Boqxiex: Poeżiji The author, 2018 ISBN 978-99957-1-206-8 272pp. Hbk. I think it was Samuel Johnson, in that highly coloured voice of his, who ...

HRC is celebrating National Poetry Month by asking young people nationwide to write poems about what equality means to them and share them with us.

With a sense of adventure, the writer restored her 300-year-old house, making it the star of an international bestseller.

Challenge yourself to read local this summer with a book from one of these Arizona-inspired categories. Read them all or pick one from each section and share ...

The 1936 screwball comedy “Libeled Lady” will be screened May 29 as part of the Los Gatos Senior Center's Classic Film Series. The Best Picture nominee ...

WHITE MOUNTAINS – J.C. Hart, the pen name for a local high school senior who is only 18 years-old, might be deemed by many as an old soul.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle celebrated Mother's Day with a sweet photo of baby Archie's feet, but the caption also honored Nayyirah Waheed, a Black ...

Listen to Nashirah, the Jewish Chorale of Greater Philadelphia, preview their upcoming concert, "LOVE In Every Language," live from the WRTI 90.1.

When Itka Zygmuntowicz reflects on her life — her imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, her postwar life in Sweden, her flourishing in the United States — poetry ...

Sofia Starnes writes in her title poem: “The consequence of moonlight / is a sigh, and saints out in the garden, strong / and pure, lift stories, as if bodies, // to the ...

Poetry has an esteemed history, but Instagram poetry is diluting the genre into short, one-note prose, which sells well but endangers the genre as a whole.

Rereading W.H. Auden, George Orwell, and James Baldwin in times of crisis.

When most people think of poetry, they think of a poem written hundreds of years ago in language that is confusing to the modern reader. However, modern ...

Everybody understands the path to literary notoriety runs through the occupants of a literary salon holding court in a dark and seedy big city bar. Or it runs ...

Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton play teenagers falling in love on a hectic, sunny day in New York.

Actress worked closely with Pua Magasiva, with the pair playing on-screen husband & wife.

William Wordsworth said “poetry takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”, so it's fitting that a Jesmond poetry club should meet in a church to share ...

The Greensboro Bound Literary Festival has come a long way in just three years. The event was the brainchild of book lover Steve Colyer who thought that.

The Game has been determined to keep Nipsey Hussle's name alive with his social media campaign, #OneNipPostADayTiliFadeAway.

While the rest of us were undeniably shook at the announcement of the royal wedding of three prominent members of Dubai's ruling family (there was a ...

Five years ago, I wrote in this column about my mother's illness and ultimate death.

The Game dedicates a poem in an Instagram post to Lauren London and late rapper, Nipsey Hussle.

Advice: Because nobody knows about the affair and no questions have been raised about your earlier marriages, I see nothing positive about disclosing that ...

Some literary festivals seem a bit dry, but music has always been a big part of the IRON Press celebrations.

When Stuart Beatch first read the queer love poems he has now set to music, he said it was meaningful they spoke to his own experience as a gay man.

Socrates was eccentric and famously ugly. But in youth he had been an active soldier, celebrated dancer and avid lover.

In the artificial intelligence goldrush, are we repeating the errors of Mary Shelley's man who created a monster?

NEW YORK – Yara Arts Group has been working with Serhiy Zhadan, the author of 12 books of poetry, throughout his career. Most recently, Yara brought ...

Fighting Words 2019: Kerry O'Sullivan is 18 and a student at Dominican College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.

By Kelly Scheper Staff Writer. Shek opens up to the audience by reading a love poem (Miguel Gonzalez / Photo Editor). Words and symbolism flowed through ...

They say music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. When I first heard Mbogi Konnection playing the ...

In 1977, the actor Joe Mantegna — then and now a rabid fan of the Chicago Cubs — came up with an idea designed to get baseball lovers into the theater.

Esther Takeuchi, the primary speaker for Saturday's Graduate School Commencement Ceremony at the University of Notre Dame, drew on her own experience ...

This animal rescuer poem is not new information. In other words, it's not something someone just figured out. It's not a new revelation as to why people continue ...

Shirley Bradley Price LeFlore, who was active in the arts for decades and served as St. Louis' second poet laureate, died Sunday. She was 79.

Seattle Arts and Lectures (SAL) just released their new schedule for 2019/2020! And there are some really good authors on there!! Plus some authors I don't like ...

In a CNET Live Q&A, the cast members and author open up about making the film, the importance of diversity on screen, Riverdale and Bruce Lee.

In “The Behavior of Love,” a new novel by Virginia Reeves—whose 2016 début novel, “Work Like Any Other,” was long-listed for the Man Booker prize—marital ...

When I was a little kid, going to Partners Village Store was always a treat.This was back in the '90s, when it was at 999 Main Road — its current location is 865 ...

From meditation to Manhattans, comedy to a cruise, there's a little something for everybody this week in Pittsburgh. Plus, don't miss salsa dancing night, ...

Notorious baby killer Keli Lane has manipulated and terrified an innocent woman from within her tiny prison cell, allegedly using jailbird friends and even guards ...

Books have enriched my life from the moment 'The Wind in the Willows' whisked me off, in the company of Ratty, Mole and Toad, on glorious childhood ...

This week on The Reading Life: Susan talks with singer / songwriter / poet / activist / New Orleanian Ani DiFranco, whose new memoir is “No Walls and the.

Many of us go through life in the hope of finding the ideal soulmate -- our missing half. The reason may be deeply embedded in religious beliefs.

Repressive laws overshadowing the bedroom and the bookshop ... a study of gay Victorians and 'obscenity'

'Amazing Grace' G 1:29 3 1/2 out of 4 stars In 1972, Aretha Franklin, already a five-time Grammy-winning hitmaker, recorded the gospel double-album “Amazing ...

Writer's block was a foreign term to a class of Lewis and Clark Elementary School fourth-graders who brainstormed an extensive list of topics for poems on ...

In this regular Sunday feature, we ask people about 10 things that changed their life. This week, Liz Lochhead, playwright, poet, broadcaster, Scotland's Makar ...

Seven arts programs have been launched in various Harris County Juvenile Probation Department facilities in a collaboration between the county and Theater ...

A villa in Misrata is abuzz with activity as mothers prepare food parcels with poems and messages of love attached for sons battling on the outskirts of the Libyan ...

Book lovers looking for fun ways to indulge their literary souls will find plenty to do at libraries, bookstores and beyond this spring and summer, from book ...

He denies defrauding her of £27000 to buy a dialysis machine for his Cambridge University student brother.

A key series of Old Master paintings by Italian Renaissance master Titian will be reunited for the first time in over 300 years for a forthcoming traveling exhibition.

Following the Fleabag season 2 finale, fans have been left wondering whether there will be a third series to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's hit TV show.

We were one of those couples joined at the hip - the type that they say 'if you see one, the other one isn't far behind'

She welcomed her third child with Mark Webber, baby girl Poet Lake, in April. And Australian actress Teresa Palmer was getting herself fighting fit with a Barre ...

Book lovers are being urged to get their tickets for Deepings Literary Festival which begins on Thursday (May 23). The four-day festival is bringing together the ...

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