And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...

The artist was a fixture in the neighborhood for more than a decade, known for her risqué paintings — "the embodiment of this extremely important, extremely central Chicago archetypical artist," one ...

One morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern tip of ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

Poetry is a vessel for greater understanding in the same way that a voice is a vessel for language,” Price said.

Morgan’s road to Luvcat wasn’t without its challenges. She spent a number of years on the live music circuit as a solo artist, but over time, performing alone began to feel isolating and limiting: ...

Every year, for the past four years, I have read the same book. As soon as it hits January 1, I know immediately what my first book of the year will be. “But Alex,” I hear you cry in dismay, “Doesn’t ...

Love is not exclusive to lovers. It's for anyone and everyone. If it were not there would be no ministers or priests to preach. No Mother Theresa or teachers to teach. No one looking up at the moon ...

A senior at The Baldwin School, Emi Maeda is a current Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate, partnering with libraries and ...

What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...