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 ...

This August, join award-winning poet Jodie Hollander for a series of poetry workshops set in the redwoods. Hosted by Redwood Parks Conservancy, the Poetry of Place series invites participants of all ...

PUTNEY — An avant-garde jazz legend will lead a group of multi-genre musicians in an incantation of poetry by his longtime collaborator, the late Vermont poet David Budbill. “The world needs to hear ...

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PITTSFIELD - Take rapturous love poems and turn them into angular, astringent songs. Can it work? Hard to be sure on first hearing. But composer Eric Moe took up the challenge in "Of Color Braided All ...

PORT ANGELES — Poet Judith Lindberg of Port Angeles has had one of her poems set to music and performed in the Greater Milwaukee area of Wisconsin. Richard Hynson, composer and music director of ...

He comes from a musical family, and a literary one, too. Max Heinegg, an English teacher at Medford High School (British and World literature), grew up knowing he wanted to be a musician. Teaching was ...

We’re on a busy street corner in downtown Miami… to read poetry. We set up a lectern and a microphone. Traffic flies by on Biscayne Boulevard. A jackhammer pounds away somewhere. People slow down to ...

Brian C. Miller’s third book of poetry, Suncatcher, is now ready to preorder from Finishing Line Press. It’s 30 poems about the human condition, such as love, time and faith. There are poems about the ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...