SSgt. Acey introduces Elizabeth Alexander’s Praise Song for the Day, written for Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. The poem honors history, resilience, and unity, urging us to appreciate our ancestors ...

In 1989, musician and storyteller Mark Staples wrote this poem about Butte at the request of Jenean Salle Kujawa, who was a ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

In the past year, Dasia Hood has been making an indelible mark for herself on the local art scene. As part of that journey, ...

Reverence is one of the least recognized and most important principles we can apply to our leadership practice.

Jon Batiste talks about performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl in New Orleans, his future with the Kennedy Center, and more ...

These under-the-radar steakhouses in New Jersey might not make the headlines, but their juicy, flavor-packed cuts have earned ...

it’s not dirty — as long as it’s all about Lumon and it’s all about reverence for Kier Eagan.” By actively seeking self-pleasure while masquerading as her innie, Helena not only followed ...

For the new conservatism, crises arise from disorder, not from a wrong order, and their handling should be entrusted to technicians in command of special knowledge, whether scientific or magical, or ...