With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, ...

Donne continues by telling death that he is merely a servant, indeed a “slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,” and ...

Grammy-winning US singer Roberta Flack has died aged 88, her publicist has confirmed. She was known for songs including The ...

Roberta Flack, the singer-songwriter behind the landmark hits 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and 'Killing Me Softly ...

The Grammy-winning singer and pianist's intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she ...

The composer’s final works, set to three poems by Hermann Hesse and one by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, view death not as a horror but as an inevitable natural process.

Boyd is retired professor at Wayne State University and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan.

In 1903, citizens of Kishinev went on a rampage — a pogrom against the Jews. That pogrom claimed the lives of 49 Jews and ...

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through ...

A filmmaker and video artist from Lesotho who resides in Berlin, Lemohang Mosese has made belonging and displacement the ...