For author and theatre personality TT Srinath, poetry begins with being alive in the moment. His recently released book of ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Help! It’s almost Christmas and I need really cheap and easy presents for my immediate family (six people), plus two grandparents. I’ve been stupidly dragging my feet, ...

A decade and a half ago, a filmmaker friend decided to become a world cinema auteur. Their chosen film school: the Mumbai Film Festival, MAMI, where they watche ...

His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such ...

Amplifying sacred voicesThe new book also marks the culmination of a long engagement with accounts of women mystics she’s written about, in her earlier books,&n ...

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure ...

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure throughout my lifetime – ...

“I need the love, gang,” Earl announces in his jovially baked bongo-jam tribute to the family-man life. For a rapper who once ...

“She watched and waited as you emerged into this world”. These were grandmother Saraswathi’s words to me, as I was preparing for my arangetram. I was an excited nine-year-old who loved to dance and ...

"My brain sized him up before he even reached my table. Police officer. White. Middle-aged. Beard. Military tattoos." View ...

Founded in 2024, Island Verse is a nonprofit dedicated to honoring and amplifying the island voices of the Pacific Northwest. We bring poetry, storytelling and performance into schools and community ...