Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

The truth is, writing is never that simple. The best creative work emerges not from choosing one extreme over the other but from embracing complexity, nuance, and flexibility. A struggling Kashmiri ...

Twenty students from Spokane-area schools will be showcasing their art in the annual Black Voices Symposium event ... Arts Center stage with their poetry, paintings, dances and essays with the ...

Show on exhibit at Create Art & Tea through end of month Visual art, poetry and augmented reality collide in a new exhibit at Create Art & Tea. The exhibit, “Voices Inside My Head” features paintings ...

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Beloved educator, linguist, writer and poet Velma Pollard, known for her passion for Jamaica's Patwa language, passed away at her Kingston home on February 1 at the age of 87, leaving the regional ...

Voices of the Eighth, Part III: Hallowed Ground is an unforgettable journey through time and spirit, where the past and present collide again, and the power of community and ancestral wisdom light ...

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as H5N1 or "bird flu," has been confirmed at a farm in Ulster County, health officials said. The virus affected a flock of about 50 … ...

The only public comment at last week’s Town Board meeting was from Barbara Gosda, who wondered what the board is thinking about doing to what she calls one of Cornwall’s “most … ...

The group Voices for a Safer Tennessee is leading ... and we are all coming together because we believe we can find common ground on this issue. We can both honor the rights of responsible gun ...

Conscience is not among Trump’s most salient characteristics. Making matters worse, whatever moral high ground Democrats in Congress might’ve claimed to constrain the misuse of this power has ...