The legal intersection of music, poetry, and defamation presents a fascinating landscape where creativity collides with ...

Happy holidays, and happy reading! All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell (Cavankerry) If there has ...

Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” might have been a one-hit wonder for its composer but it was Satchmo’s favorite opera. In the mid-1920s, Louis Armstrong would pop out of the pit at the ...

Folks who level a blanket criticism of Bob Dylan’s recordings in the 80s aren’t listening closely enough. Sure, it was more of a rollercoaster era than others in his career. But the highs soared to ...

The poetry-curious politician might like to start with Joanne Burns’s brush(Giramondo, 120pp, $24). Burns is serious but funny. She collects bits and pieces ...

In “Night Watch,” Kevin Young riffs on Dante’s “Inferno” and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation’s past. By Sandra Simonds Sandra Simonds is the author of eight books of poetry and, most ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that ...

He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop. It’s never been easy to survive as an American poet, but the late 20th century was especially tough. The ...

Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. In the past few years, the city’s poets have showered us with an embarrassment of riches. To celebrate National ...

It’s not an animal that resembles an elk and runs quickly. A ghazal is a type of poem. Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic ...