Preview of the Poetry Out Loud competition, 12 finalists compete for best in Massachusetts this weekend. Organizer, Meg ...

Out of the Blue – 12 is a dramatic monologue that gives voice to a man trapped in the North Tower during the 9/11 attacks. It captures his desperation and persistence as he waves for help, knowing ...

At an open-air gathering at the India International Centre, poets, writers and scholars reflected on womanhood, memory, ...

The Boston landmark where "One if by land, two if by sea" was signaled reveals its complex history, from enslaved congregants to active citizenship today.

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

Under a rare blood moon, 50 cops filled out LAPD’s Hollenbeck Station in gritty Boyle Heights. Their mission was to take down ...

Pat Parker wrote about the negotiations required to survive in a society that rarely recognized the complexity of Black women’s lives.

The protagonist of "A Poet," like many, is trying to figure out if art can sustain our lives or force us to commit to hopeless dreams.

When was the last time you wrote a letter? Not a text. Not a tweet. But a real, ink on paper letter? It’s becoming a ...

Some pieces of music are simply larger than life, and Carmina Burana is definitely one of them. With its thunderous choruses and dramatic storytelling, it’s the kind of work that sends chills through ...

If the brainstem is survival and the cortex is sophistication, then the limbic system is poetry.

PHOTO COURTESY ANDREW FLECK For more than 10,000 lines, English poet John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” explores the heights of ...