Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

For the 60th anniversary of the release of "A Love Supreme" the Village Voice asked dozens of sax players to muse on the jazz masterpiece.

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

I’ve always compared the act of writing to getting a kite to fly. That’s how it feels to me: running headlong into a kind of energy, hoping that the voice of this poem will fly. Though it ...

Connie started writing poems in first grade. Her first book of poetry, “I’m Going to Pet a Worm Today,” was published in 1991, when she was 60 years old. She is a former elementary grade ...

The Old Courts and the WERK LGBTQ+ Artist Network are excited to present an inspiring and inclusive poetry workshop led by ...

Jim Armstrong will speak at the 10 a.m. Sunday Service of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winona on February 16. His talk is titled “What does it mean to dedicate ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Lord Turnbull comments on the poem that was read out by Laurence's ... we will never see resolutions. “Peace will never prevail. Our children will continue to be enemies divided by inaccuracies ...