Local poet Ellen Bass spoke from the lectern as more than 500 people filled the Merrill Cultural Center at UC Santa Cruz last ...

Umberto Giordano’s tragedy of love undone by the French Revolution has returned, but as an evening of coarse music making.

My country, I will build you again, / if need be, with bricks made from my life.”  That line from Iranian poet Simin ...

Actors perform the modern dance, Dongpo: Life in Poems, in Washington on Friday. LIU JIE/XINHUA Soothing sounds emanate from a guqin being played on the stage, a huge painting hanging high seems to ...

Spoken Word and performance poetry is on the rise again in Guyana. Two shows have been advertised over the past month which seem to be generating quite a bit of excitement and these have emerged to ...

Poet Zewande BK Bhengu had stepped away from competing on poetry stages for the better part of a decade. However, on his first return to this fierce environment last weekend, he was crowned the Slam ...

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This past spring, Rachel Gloria Adams and Ryan Adams transformed Salisbury Hall at the Worcester Art Museum with their new mural, The More I Wonder, The More I Love. On Sept. 21 the artists will give ...

LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Laredo’s BorderSlam Poetry is marking 15 years of performance poetry with a special “quinceañera” celebration this Friday, August 29. The nonprofit organization, which encourages ...

Heard 'Em Say Youth Arts Collective, the nonprofit behind Tampa’s only youth open mic event, uplifts adolescent and teen voices through poetry, storytelling, and the arts. In a world that often ...