If you hear “The Rose” on the radio today and don’t know the story behind it, you might just assume the touching ballad was a standalone-type thing written to capitalize on the vocal strengths of ...

This new opera assembles a compassionate, haunting portrait of the middle class that emerged from World War II and considers ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago just announced its 2025-26 season, including two new shows by Chicago pioneers: Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young.

Ancient Greek women were defiant and established themselves as respected doctors, philosophers, and mathematicians in Greece thousands of years ago.

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

My friend Harry Vann Phillips is not only a great human, he’s also an excellent writer. He sent me this poem about the Old Mission Peninsula after I saw him in church on Sunday. Thanks so much, Harry!

I say things through poetry, I say them through song, I say them through drawing.” “One’s On the Way” is a humorous ode to motherhood and how some women can compare their lives to ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.