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Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.
Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.
Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction ...
White Bear Center for the Arts (WBCA) has hosted a visual arts competition for northeast metro students grades 9-12.
Almir Agić, a 22-year-old Roma man from Ilijaš, near Sarajevo, fights prejudice with poetry and art, giving a voice to those ...
One summer. 46 peaks. A second chance to make things right.” Kate Messner’s novel-in-verse “The Trouble with Heroes” is about a boy, a dog, and the healing power of nature. The boy, Finn Connelly, is ...
In Unmet (Biblioasis, 124 pages, $22), stephanie roberts uses surrealism and ekphrastic poems to explore the way one’s ...
Earth Day events are still going on this weekend. Plus, Chicago's biggest art show hits Navy Pier. You can also shop a ...
A self-described “numbers guy,” Bears coach Ben Johnson decided to give poetry a try. He stood at a podium in front of about ...
Now that the weather is warming, it's time for the epic-length poems to be found, 'Cause it's National Poetry Month, just as ...
WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn and Susan Phillips explore the beauty of nature through poetry, featuring iconic poets like Amanda Gorman, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg.
A former leading IRA man says he has discovered a new way of dealing with the horrors of the past — by writing “conflict ...