Both men were arrested for the shooting deaths of music producers Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler in June of 2008, but only ...

The competition is presented by the WTAMU Department of English along with Brick & Elm Magazine. Attention area poets! Do you have some work you may be less than proud of, lines that make your eyes ...

James Broadnax was a teenager when a jury convicted him of capital murder, with his rap lyrics presented as evidence he posed a threat of ‘future dangerousness’ James Broadnax has been locked up in a ...

In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve rounded up a selection of readings, performances, workshops, and celebrations of poetry’s vital place in our city’s culture. Whether you’re a poet, poetry ...

Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this ...

An underperforming California school district is dishing out nearly $300,000 to partner with a group to teach a rap-based curriculum to students, sparking "troubling" concerns, the Justice Department ...

This April, join NCPR and SLC Arts in Potsdam in celebrating National Poetry Month! Every weekday in April, NCPR will be sharing a new poem submitted by our listeners ...

Rapper Gabriel "Dome Lettuce" Carter-Weidenfeld at his Hampshire College apartment in Amherst, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. DANIEL JACOBI II / Staff Photo Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and ...

Some of rap music’s biggest names have come out in support of a Black man, whose rap lyrics were cited during his sentencing in Texas. He is on death row. In 2009, a nearly all-white jury convicted ...

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...

The formidable novelist and philosopher, who died in 1999, thought her poetry was mediocre. It’s not. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...