In her debut novel 'Paradise Close,' out in paperback next month from Persea, the poet tells two intergenerational stories, ...

With February being Black History Month, it’s important to reflect on and appreciate the rich cultural history that exists ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

What an image,” an audience member whispered, looking at a photo displayed behind poet Claudia Rankine — it depicted a couch ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

WBAL-TV is a proud media sponsor of the Dream Big Contest with the Lyric Baltimore, an arts competition for Baltimore-area students. Ebony Evans and Denise Gantt from the Lyric join Jennifer ...

San Diego has named Paola Capó-García as its third Poet Laureate since the program began in 2020. A former journalist and ...

By this time, Michael had already established his own personal, lyric style and was wary of writing about an obviously sectarian conflict. Nonetheless, in several poems he spoke out directly ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war – and why the peace process is far from over. By Michael Longley Editor’s note: this piece was ...

While performing their 2004 hit “American Idiot” at the Calabash South Africa festival in Johannesburg on Jan. 19, the rock band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, swapped the lyric “I’m not a part of ...

Footage of the lyric change quickly made its rounds online — and the internet had a lot to say. "I wish artists would stick to what they do best, politics is obviously not what they do best ...

“I’m not a part of the Elon agenda,” Armstrong sang, switching the original lyric: “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.” Armstrong has been known to switch up the lyrics to the ...