Too artsy. Too sing-song. Too hard to understand. Too much rhyming; not enough rhyming. These are some of the remarks I've heard when people express their disinterest — or downright distaste — for ...

Score one for the arts—Poetry in Motion is coming back! Four years after the popular MTA program was discontinued and two years after its odd replacement, "Train of Thought," was nixed as well, the ...

Rupi Kaur, an India-born Canadian national, has been performing poetry since 2009 but she rose to prominence only in 2015 through Instagram. With 4.4 million followers now and a world tour lined up ...

When Thax Douglas walks into IHOP, they already know what he wants. He sidles into the booth in his uniform of a stained thermal shirt, puffy green coat, and a trucker hat covering the top of his wild ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - ”The process of making this ballet, no one’s ever done it before,” says “Poetry in Motion” ballet creator William Smith. With help from a Roanoke City arts grant, Smith is about ...

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Jacob Hemphill, lead singer/songwriter and guitarist with the American reggae band SOJA, is as provocative an interviewee as he is a songwriter. On the phone from Haunted Hallowed Recording… By ...

Every year, poems written by local residents and selected by a panel of professional writers are displayed on large placards inside Metro Transit buses. And every year, the transit agency holds its ...

Saul Williams has a tip for the Department of Homeland Security. “If I was an FBI or a CIA agent, I’d be stationed at a poetry reading,” says Williams from his monastic loft in Los Angeles. “That’s ...