Books & the Arts / In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits. Nate ...

A sitdown with Leslie Parker to talk about the Black Dance Improvisation Festival and her other upcoming work.

I vacillate in my opinions about bird names. Sometimes I like the names that are clear and technically descriptive. Sometimes ...

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

Virginia Festival of the Book honors the late Nikki Giovanni, a retired Virginia Tech English professor, with a tribute on ...

A proposed timber sale in the Yaak Valley threatens old-growth trees and habitat. Instead, could it become the nation’s first ...

As a creative professional with over 20 years of experience in higher education, adult literacy, and the social expression industry, Michelle Rankins has leveraged those skills to curate innovative ...

A Ghanaian-born poet; a chronicler of the Cuban refugee experience; and an experimental artist "writing between genres" are this year's winners.

The poet and activist talks about the precarity that trans, queer, and Afrodescendent people in Cuba face today, and the life ...

Saxophonist Javon Jackson plays at Sculler’s Jazz Club in Boston on March 22nd. His newest albums include the collaboration ...

This year, the University of Puerto Rico’s Cumbre Afro is headed to Harlem. “CENTRO x Cumbre — Sites of Black Memory.

Bermuda’s oldest town will celebrate the artistic and historical influence of poetry next week. The Corporation of St George ...