The event at the Halifax Central Library was led by George Elliott Clarke, a Nova Scotian and a former poet laureate of ...

Music has a special way of connecting us all. But this time of year, love songs have a way of cutting straight to the heart.

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Many Americans have heard the expression “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine” – in fact, a quick Google search turns ...

Beyond destruction, fire symbolizes love and covenant. The Song of Songs says, “Love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame ...

The fingers on Shabaka’s Brazilian bamboo flute are tapping. There’s another album to be coaxed from its mathematically ...

Now, with his arsenal of flutes and appropriately sensitive accompanists on harp, trombone, percussion and hip-hop poetry — Andre 3000, Moses Sumney, Saul Williams, ELUCID and more appear on the new ...

Blue corn is an important food to the Navajo people. It’s the title of a new book of poems by Amber McCrary, "Blue Corn ...

The Song of Songs is the only work in the Bible that focuses exclusively on human-to-human love, not human-to-divine – at least on the surface level of the poem. Ancient Jews and Christians were ...

There is a long history when it comes to popular music of its biggest stars trying to save the world through song. There are festivals like Live Aid and Farm Aid. And there are single releases like ...

DECATUR — Everyone’s a poet, but they just don’t know it. The local poetry group, Decatur Area Poets, aims to help others find the poet inside. Decatur resident Anastasia Lindsey, 31, joined ...