Feb. 6-23, on Octagon Stage. Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, ...

Just days after taking home five Grammy Awards, Kendrick Lamar is off to the Super Bowl. Lamar previously performed at the ...

Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Workshop - The Thread by Don Paterson from the landmark series exploring the pleasures of writing and reading poems. Presented, ...

I’ve been in Japan for less than 24 hours and somehow, I’ve found myself in a ruby-red basement bar watching an 89-year-old ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict the fight for civil rights.

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone….” You might remember the opening ...

Snow, for all its inconveniences, is good for New England. It helps maintain our water supply and insulates plants from the ...

The Milwaukee Poet Laureate program, which was started in February 2000, aims to celebrate local poetry and is supported by the Milwaukee Public Library and the Friends of the Milwaukee Public Library ...

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 ...