“I clung to poetry because I saw it as a way to express myself that I wasn’t even aware of,” says Samuel Hawkins II, a poet and spoken word artist based in Rochester. Since his first attachment to ...

There wasn’t a dry eye in the room during the latest Golden Buzzer moment on “America’s Got Talent.” Brandon Leake, 27, a community college counselor in Stockton, California, wowed the judges with an ...

Caleb Rainey, a spoken word poet known as "The Negro Artist," performs at the newly-formed House of Words event for poets and other performing artists on Nov. 21 in Iowa City. (Elijah Decious/The ...

When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In between the transition of tracks one and two, I fire off ...

This morning we’ll be taking a brief break from the usual coronavirus and wildfire apocalypse programming to talk about a poet from the Central Valley, and his unlikely journey into millions of living ...