Until five years ago, Alice Saunders never considered hosting a radio show. In fact, the lifelong poetry and fiction writer was just finding her bearings at open mic nights for poets and spoken word ...

During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption. Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of ...

In a preface to the collection Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology, the editors April Lindner and Ryan Wilson discuss their criteria for measuring, more or less, what kind of Catholic a poet ...

The title of the book “Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women Two Worlds” suggests a sense of foreboding. But for the two poets in the book, Demetria Martínez and Susan Sherman, those times — in the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Take away the music and the melody of a song and you are left with just the words. WDRB's Keith Kaiser orchestrates a game of Lyrical Poetry. Each of the WDRB Mornings crew ...

In his song Colfax/Step in Time, the true-to-life, 10-minute-plus odyssey finds Kevin Gordon evoking a seventh-grade vignette when, as a hormonal trumpet player, he and the Louisiana marching band led ...

Now almost 40 years old, rap burst out of the Bronx to become one of the dominant musical and cultural forces in this country. A new book, The Anthology of Rap, tracks the development of the genre -- ...

Every week, poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive. This time he selects ‘Lyrical Ballads’, a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in ...