In a one-hour program Monday at Chicago’s Cultural Center, pianist Frederick Chiu and reader Brian Bedford managed to compress 14 poems, a wealth of piano settings and the whole Romantic era of music.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson during his tenure as Britain's poet laureate, published a narrative poem about the life and love of a merchant sailor named Enoch Arden. Three decades later, in 1897, Richard ...

Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday featured a show-stopping rendition of the National Anthem by Lady Gaga and a medley of “America The Beautiful” and “This Land Is Your Land” by Jennifer Lopez. But ...

An early poem from D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930), which appeared in his 1916 collection “Amores,” “The Enkindled Spring” shows the young writer emerging from something like a traditional Georgian poet ...

Let's be honest. No listener can truly claim to have a working knowledge of and appreciation for all kinds of music. It's exceedingly rare to get a person who is an equally massive fan of Bulgarian ...

I occasionally make a list of things I’ve liked recently. Here’s one for the holidays. 1. Gift idea: a pizza stone My colleague Kevin Pang, culinary savant, told me I had to put this on the list. His ...

Stanley Plumly's sensuous, poignant poems, eleven of which have appeared in The Atlantic, hum with a note of true feeling. He springs from that generation of poets, which includes his friend the late ...

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