Sugar Hill Gang hit the airwaves, Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was crafting verses that could rival the best of them.

Launched on St David’s Day, Persian Tour - an immersive journey through art, poetry, and culture across Wales - comes to SPAN ...

These highways displaced many Black communities. Some Black activists are using mapping to do the opposite: highlight hidden parts of history. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division Joshua F.

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

In a dimly lit cellar, clients of Barcelona's "poetry brothel" watched provocatively dressed performers strut their stuff and ...

Russian U.N. envoy Vasily Nebenzya said on Monday (February 17) that "Ukraine has irreversibly lost" Crimea and four other ...

The proliferation of "y'all" points to a global cultural shift toward more inclusive language and merging traditions.

Cox, University of Dayton Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

As opposed to anaesthesia, aesthetics is the heightening of the five senses, emotions, imagination, and moral action. Going ...

As part of Xpress' annual Wellness Issues, we asked six local poets to share their thoughts on the benefits of slowing down and being present in the moment.

And he ain’t normal like us mortals--he chooses to always rhyme whatever comes out of his mouth. This film is an assault on not just the villain but our senses too with common sense taking the worst .