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 ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - When was the last time a subway poster got you choked up? For WCBS 880's Jane Tillman Irving, it was recently, when she saw the poem "Heaven" by Patrick Phillips. "Heaven" is ...

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Johnny Tillotson, one of the clean-cut young men who tried to fill the gap left by Elvis Presley’s stint in the military - Michael Levin/Corbis via Getty Images Johnny Tillotson, who has died aged 86, ...

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 ...

I was walking down the sidewalk the other day, talking to myself, when I heard a person come up behind me, making the kind of polite noises that a person makes so as not to startle the person ahead ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A global technology giant recently used the poetry of Maya Angelou to give their company and its ...