Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, SC, honored the life of Black poet Phillis Wheatley on Jan. 30 with a commemorative USPS stamp and a day in her honor.

Grammy-considered poet and Pharr Poet Laureate Amanda Puryear El returns with Nightly Dosage, a deeply personal spoken-word ...

Early Christian writers condemned pagan sacrifices while debating among themselves the meaning of the death of Jesus.

When grappling with deep emotions, inextricable thoughts, and challenges perceived by the human soul as decisive, it becomes easier to rely on poetry, with its immediate and unadorned ...

Billy Bragg, who just wrote and released the song “City of Heroes,” talks with the Monitor about the impact of protest songs.

Paul’s famous “wedding passage” describes the essence of love: God is love, and, operationally, Jesus tells us to “love one ...

\xa0By Henry Atta NYAMEIn basic school, there was a poem I remember very well because it taught deep lessons about human life ...

From poetry-filled love letters to a stormy wedding day at Radagast Hall, Samantha Thornhill and Jack Rupple’s Brooklyn ...

As the days begin to get longer, thousands gather across Ireland and Scotland to celebrate the return of the light after a ...

When it comes to the greatest classic rock debut albums of all time, it is relatively subjective—though some works do stick ...

Award shows are bound to get stuff wrong, but a shocking number of masterpieces were ignored by the Grammys in the album of the year category.

Debates over what constitutes the American literary canon—and whether Bible excerpts should be a part of it—erupted on ...