“Summoning Earth”, one of the five elements of nature as a witness, Tansy Troy’s poems arrive in With Earth as My Witness as ...

Love poems, poems of protest, poems about the color blue, rain poems. I was always doing that naturally. And very much like a mixtape, I was thinking, you read one, and then this one just sort of ...

The poem caught my breath ... But there's an invitation there, to smell the rain and feel it on your skin as you read. In that way, Melanie speaks to something ever present, something we take ...

The artists thought the poem—and its message that conversation ... The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently acquired Text Rain. Michael Mansfield, the museum’s curator of film and media ...

When rain falls on parched ground the profusion of life that is released can be stunning. Seeds that have lain dormant swell and grow into blooms so colourful ...

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same” – so wrote Rudyard Kipling, in his ...

More than 1,500 years ago, poet Lu Kai, living in the south, sent a sprig of plum blossom to his friend Fan Ye in the north ...

In her solo work, percussionist Valentina Magaletti shows little interest in familiar genres and just as little interest in ...

Martin Espada’s new poetry collection, “The Jailbreak of Sparrows,” captures people, politics, and scenes and moments from Puerto Rico. Espada, a University of Massachusetts professor and acclaimed ...

He noted that classical Chinese poetry, which dates back over 3,000 years ... Chinese Language Day is designated on April 20, around Grain Rain (gu yu), the sixth of "24 solar terms" in the ...