Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and ...

Joshua Clover’s “My Life in the New Millennium” begins with a thorny, if familiar, either/or. Then the poem moves quickly to accrue its juxtapositions and surprises, providing room for both ...

Life is a barren field. Frozen with snow. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about ...

Poetry from Daily Life: ... “Music is like poetry is like Shakespeare is like me,” I wrote in my polka-dotted notebook while watching a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5.

Poetry, music and Mediterranean magic: Ithaca Foundation celebrates 15 years of Poetic Evening Concerts in Altea ...

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My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Randle Chowning, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. He was born in Howell County, Missouri and spent the first ten years of his life there.

Poet J. Ivy is a nominee for the Grammys' Best Spoken Word Poetry Album award — a new category he helped create, after petitioning the Recording Academy.

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.” ...

The Portland record store and label Mississippi Records turns 20 this year. To help mark its anniversary, it teamed up with the Hollywood Theatre to hold a local song-poem writing contest.

The latest chamber music piece, Man Jiang Hong, or Full River Red, which is named after the famous poem of the same title by Yue Fei, an ancient Chinese military general who lived during the ...