Amy Allen might not yet be a household name, but her work lives in your brain rent-free. And it’s grabbed the attention of the Grammys. The 32-year-old songwriter has ...

The great and ancient city of Istanbul – formerly Constantinople, formerly New Rome, formerly Byzantium – straddles two continents. The European side extends like a finger across the Bosphorus Strait, ...

She’s showing WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features reporter Bill Wood her gold medal. Her golden moment comes from the ...

“My son looks at me, he goes, ‘There’s no Santa. You’ve been lying to me,'" recalls Highfill, 56, of Pleasanton, California. ...

This week’s episode of 8News Arts and Culture highlighted events coming up where Jasey will DJ, including poetry-focused events. The group talked about the poetry and music scene in the greater ...

Lorraine O’Grady, an indefatigable conceptual artist whose work critiqued definitions of identity, died in New York on Friday aged 90. Her gallery, Mariane Ibrahim, confirmed her death via email, ...

Jason Perez is no stranger to a bookstore. It’s a place where he can support other writers while finding inspiration.

In many ways, for me, the political and sociolinguistic risks of putting ASL on the walls of an art museum feel tempered by the power of the ekphrastic conceit.

West Knoxville writer Gardner Dorton recently had his poetry book published, and it's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, ...

NEW YORK -- Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first ...

NEW YORK — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first ...

A biologist’s debut poetry collection that weaves science with a condemnation of slavery and colonialism has received a $10,000 literary award. The Cave Canem Prize helped ...