The beaming smile and laughter-creased face of Elizabeth Wojtusik on the Favorite Poem Project website tells it all. Undeniable emotion emanates even more as the Humarock, Mass., teaching consultant ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — The oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located in the shadow of Wall Street. Actor and poet David Mills will read ...

A humanities education should focus on language, literature, and the arts, not on history and philosophy, said the Harvard University professor Helen Vendler, who delivered the annual Jefferson ...

Want to hear a surefire way to get 95 percent of readers to stop paying attention to your article? Just write the following: This is an article about poetry lectures. Yes, not just (shudder) poetry, ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Poet Judith Adams, a Humanities Washington speaker and Whidbey Island resident, will present “A Fierce Language: Falling in Love with Poetry” at the Jefferson County Historical Society ...

During his Presidential Faculty Award Lecture, titled “Dwelling in a World of Poetry,” Professor of Islamic Humanities, History and Religious Studies Shahzad Bashir spoke Monday afternoon about the ...

How lucky can we get? One of this nation’s most esteemed poets, Maxine Kumin, will fly here in April to top off the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series. And before we drop to our knees to honor her, ...

Poetry by contemporary Southern writers was the topic of USC Aiken’s latest “Aiken in the Alley” lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Dr. Tom Mack, distinguished professor emeritus, and Andrew Geyer, ...

• Dario Robleto visits UC Davis next week to give an illustrated lecture, “Some Longings Survive Death,” about the integration of sound elements into his sculptural art — in particular his work for ...

Timothy Donnelly is the author of two books of poetry. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and won the prestigious Kingsley Tufts award in 2012. Co-presented with the Bagley ...

During his Presidential Faculty Award Lecture, titled “Dwelling in a World of Poetry,” Professor of Islamic Humanities, History and Religious Studies Shahzad Bashir spoke Monday afternoon about the ...