By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

Take some time out of your week to appreciate the holiday of love and appreciation. This local Lubbock radio station is doing just that; don't miss out!

Art enthusiasts perusing Carbondale Arts’s 46th Annual Valley Visual Art Show might not notice the similarities between the goldfinch and raven displayed on the gallery’s left wall. Separated by an ...

A children’s classic comes to life at the Minnesota Opera; Augsburg show celebrates Black hair; Indigenous art in Winona; ice ...

I’ve thought long and hard about what to write about in this, my first column of 2025. I recently returned from Sierra Leone where I read about Hungary’s Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme.

T he poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe, who was born this month two hundred and sixteen years ago, was famous in his life time, and that fame has only continued to grow. Through his ...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was never one for a happy ending. The celebrated writer of stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and the classic poem “The Raven” specialized ...

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror, captivating readers with its haunting refrain and melancholic themes. This poem not only solidified Poe's reputation as ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame.