Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...
Tom Waits said that "all songs are strange, when you're strange", and he would know better than most. Here are ten of the ...
Once reserved for the warrior caste, the ‘prestige’ associated with the act of Sati led to its proliferation. Until the ...
Poetry will take the centrestage on Friday, March 21, as the world celebrates World Poetry Day (WPD). Declared by the United Nations , ...
On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...
The Los Angeles Master Chorale will perform 'Carmina Burana,' a classical work with controversial roots in Nazi Germany that ...
But more than derivative or maladroit, Emerson’s poems crucially omit the fragility visible within his famous self-reliance ... particularly to his early lyrical ballad, ‘Expostulation ...
Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Whyte Recital Hall, RIAM, Dublin on 10 April, ...
We already know how 'Sunrise on the Reaping' ends, but that doesn’t erase the 'Hunger Games' prequel's power. Here's what ...
Jessica Simpson channeled the emotion of being scrutinized and criticized for her image, her romances, and more into new Americana songs.