Queens College hosted a poetry reading by Kimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at the Flushing-based college who was ...

The Grammy-nominated and Juno Award winner’s music often feels like spoken poetry, backed by a mix of R&B, hip-hop and Latin ...

Both Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft left their marks on Providence, and their footsteps can be followed there to this day ...

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As India mourns his passing, it also celebrates a man who taught us to speak with pride, to dream with humour, and to find ...

Just weeks later, booming Hotchkiss rifles 15 miles away signaled the start of the Wounded Knee Massacre. Federal troops ended up killing at least 250 Lakota Sioux men, women and children; the ...

Fiddle player, sean nós singer and presenter Doireann Ní Ghlacáin on growing up speaking Irish in Dublin, her hit podcast How ...

In 2011, Emel Mathlouthi stood among the crowd of protesters in Tunis and began singing her song “Kelmti Horra,” which means ...

A new translation of a key work of Czech literature, The Grandmother (Babička) by Božena Němcová, will be launched this month. It’s the work of Englishwoman Susan Reynolds, ...

Pink ribbons are fluttering in the wind across Europe today for International Breast Cancer Awareness Day, and Europe faces a sobering paradox ...

The story of Apollo and Daphne was written around the year zero by Roman poet Ovid in the Metamorphoses. Ovid was a trainee lawyer and student of rhetoric. In the story, a woman named Daphne becomes a ...