Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet and star of President Joe Biden's inauguration, has met Michelle Obama only three times, most recently on Inauguration Day. But she left a lasting impression on the ...

Ashley M. Jones, an alumna of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of English, was recently appointed to serve as the next Poet Laureate of Alabama. She holds an MFA from Florida ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A local restaurant is looking forward to their first poetry night featuring an award winning poet and it’s an event you don’t want to miss. KB Cafe Owner Katherine Bernard and ...

ALLEN GINSBERG: (Reading) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn, looking for an angry fix.

Simone White doing a guerrilla reading at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos © Lawrence Schwartzwald, used with permission; no reproduction without express ...

'Ibo's Landing: A Novel' Catherine Burroughs of Edisto Island has penned a novel called "Ibo's Landing," a reference to the 1802 ship mutiny by captured Africans, many of whom then drowned themselves ...

My Lola once improvised a poem for me Jan. 24, 2021. We were talking on the phone, and a colloquial conversation about her life in the Philippines for a piece in my high school newspaper became a two ...

In today’s complex musical landscape—shaped by the dynamics of the post-digital era and enriched by platforms such as X and TikTok—we see a remarkable evolution in how music is created and shared.

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A new tribute album offers musical interpretations of Ginsberg's poems. The poet and countercultural activist spoke to Terry Gross in 1994 about his poem "Howl," which was inspired by his mother.