Less known but no less compelling is Lucy Terry Prince (1730-1821), the once enslaved poet who struggled to make a home for her family in what is now southern Vermont. Their stories parallel — and ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

(Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images) My first encounter with poetry was a haiku by my father. He would say to me, “You can write them, too.” After his death, I finally ventured ...

It’s vulgar. It’s dirty. It’s highbrow. Odesa loves its opera, its theater and, perhaps most of all, its poets, who since Russia’s invasion have written a chronicle of life in wartime.

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

MANILA, Philippines — Veteran broadcast journalist Jay Ruiz is set to be appointed as the next head of the Presidential Communications Office (PCO), said the agency’s outgoing Secretary Cesar ...

Former journalist Jay Ruiz will be appointed as the new head of the Presidential Communications Office. This was confirmed Thursday by Cesar Chavez, who sent his irrevocable resignation to President ...

The blockbuster, now-dropped lawsuit accusing Jay-Z of raping a 13-year-old girl cost the Brooklyn-born artist $20 million, he claims in court filings. Jay-Z, 55, detailed his arguments as part of ...

The lawsuit accusing Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of repeatedly raping a minor in 2000 after the MTV VMAs was dismissed on Valentine’s Day, but the bitter relationship between the Jay-Z and ...

Fairs and festivals, local St. Patrick's Day and Mardi Gras celebrations, and other events in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties in March.