With “Context Collapse,” Ryan Ruby aims to explain poetry’s origins and its waves of innovation all the way to the present. By Daisy Fried Daisy Fried’s most recent book is “The Year the City Emptied, ...
The opening poem of this year’s Magic City Poetry Festival paid reverence to Birmingham’s history. The month-long celebration of the literary art commenced Saturday morning with Alabama poet laureate ...
Since he was introduced to the works of William Butler Yeats and Emily Dickinson in early childhood, Walt Hunter has loved poetry—an admiration he's turned into a career. "I've always loved the music ...
Carissa J. Chen ’21 is a second-year economics Ph.D. student with a love for language, research, and preserving history. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: You went to Phillips ...
Chinese poetry carved on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. Text from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 These lines ...
In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate. By Tas Tobey When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...
Two Birmingham arts organizations are pairing with the National Park Service to host an afternoon of poetry readings along the Birmingham Civil Rights Trail. This weekend, St. Paul United Methodist ...
Where: South Hill Public Library, 3324 S. Perry St. Cost: Free and open to the public For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ...
Humans spend most of their waking hours playing with what novelist Rudyard Kipling called “the most powerful drug used by mankind”—words. In the laboratories of our minds, we sort, slice, and string ...
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