The Mountain Goats’ 14th studio record began with one song about a man lost and helpless, fighting an urge to give up. And although John Darnielle could be recognized in that narrator’s voice, the ...

Tick, tick, tick. Taylor Swift is dropping her highly anticipated 11th era album "The Tortured Poets Department" on Friday, giving fans just days to break out the quills and notebooks, brush up on ...

In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits. In the introduction to his 2003 essay collection In the Break, Fred Moten lays out the importance of ...

After listening to a cantor and organist musically perform passages from the diary of Polish visionary St. Maria Faustina Kowalska at the 2023 Divine Mercy Sunday service at the Cathedral of St. Paul ...

In the latest installment of our occasionial series Weekend Reads, we're celebrating National Poetry Month with The Little Edges, a unique work by American poet Fred Moten. Many of the poems in the ...

Throughout English-speaking history, up until about 50 years ago, there had always been men famous in their day for writing beautiful poetry, from William Shakespeare, to Lord Byron, to Robert Frost.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On “Sound Machine,” a track from the new album “Aloud” from poet Raymond Antrobus and percussionist Evelyn Glennie ...

“Poetry and Science; individually, but especially together are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply. We need science to help us meet reality on its terms and we ...