Boston's about to bust a rhyme.Dozens of prominent poets, including a former U.S. poet laureate, will commandeer the courtyard of the Boston Public Library on Thursday to read aloud from the city's ...
Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), a promising student of the English composer Charles Villiers Stanford, thought of music, not poetry, as his primary vocation. It was in the trenches in France during World War ...
VIDEO - A University of Texas at Arlington graduate student recently found a piece of American history that offers more insight on U.S. slavery. Julie McCown, a doctoral student, discovered one of the ...
the first time the knife starts to slip. first thing, or too ready to begin. Then it’s on to ordinary work. Paul Hunter is a poet, musician, instrument-maker, teacher, and editor and publisher. For ...
At her inauguration as the city's poet laureate, Genny Lim recites from her poem, "I am American." "I am American. We live, love, work, sleep and breathe In this Babylon of 48 hills..." she begins. As ...
Joy Harjo, member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, said her appointment as poet laureate is an important recognition of Native American culture.Shawn Miller, Library of Congress Monday is World's ...
BOSTON – Boston's about to bust a rhyme. Dozens of prominent poets, including a former U.S. poet laureate, have assembled the city's first anthology of poetry — and they'll commandeer the courtyard of ...