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 ...

In my inauguration speech, I talked about a line from an Elizabeth Alexander poem in which she asks, “Are we not of interest to each other?” As I said then, we must be. Being of interest to each other ...

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image reminiscent of Elizabeth ... bore him 12 children, and her name, Anne ...

Hay Festival has unveiled the full programme for its 38th spring edition in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, with more than 600 events over 11 days, 22 May–1 June 2025.

The curators of the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition “Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist” withhold her most ...

The first known banned book was Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan," a book published in 1637 that was banned by the Puritan ...

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of ... A 41-year-old mother of two small children, Holmes began serving her 11-year sentence in May 2023 at a federal prison in Texas.

The 10 films chosen for International Competition will compete for the Golden Alexander and the Silver Alexander ... Sang is one of the thousands of unwanted and marginalized children abandoned by ...

Frankie Carattini has worked the door for Baz Luhrmann, Stella McCartney, and Anne Hathaway (and he once turned away Cuba ...