As in his equally exceptional last film, Secret Sunshine (2007), Lee Chang-dong's Poetry is a perfectly paced and performed character study of a woman raising a child on her own who must contend with ...

“It is English, I promise,” English Ph.D. student Jon Quick joked before beginning to recite at Stanford’s Poetry Out Loud competition Tuesday evening. Then, for the next four minutes, an audience of ...

Verbally expressed or written, poetry can stir the mind and soul. North Texas has its share of nationally and internationally known poets that are published or perform at slams and other events. Here ...

The notion of poetry as words written on a page and read silently is a relatively recent historical development. Older, and perhaps more exciting, is the tradition of poetry as performance. Ancient ...

Students from various cultral groups took the stage Tuesday to express themselves though poetry, prose and music. “Risen and Released: A Night of Personal and Social Liberation” was an open mic night ...

In the 1950s, the Beat poets made verse “hip” again with their carefree, alternative commentary on society. Now a new kind of “hip” has made the scales tip to a love of rhyme in present-day time. “Rap ...

David Axelrod,” performed in Portland Friday. The performance is part of the Cascadia Composers Autumn Concert series featuring the works of eight Northwest composers. McKinnon, a professor of music, ...

EDWARDS, Colorado Some people think poetry and think heavy Emily Dickinson or T.S. Eliot and his wasteland. Its not likely that those same people connect poetry with pleasure. Thats just what poet ...

Thirty-five years after his death, the first unabridged performance of John Lennon’s nonsense poetry will take place at the Edinburgh festival. Thirty-five years after his death, the first unabridged ...

Passwords, logins. Those, we know by heart. They are the keys that open our technological doors, and lock others out. But I’m not sure we still commit beauty to memory; the poetry and even Bible verse ...