Digital tools and platforms are driving young, hip readers and writers of poetry in ever increasing numbers to practice and appreciate the ancient art. Here's a round up of four to watch. The ...

This month, Dessa, aka Dessa Darling, aka Margret Wander, will set off on a spring tour with her band, Doomtree. With Doomtree and as a solo artist, Dessa has expanded the boundaries of what people ...

A new rap version of William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as A Cloud" was created to mark the bicentenary of the poem. Scott Simon takes a listen.

AKRON, Ohio – Loretta Brown, like many grandmothers, has a lot of good advice. And she has an unusual way of sharing it: dropping rhymes to the beat of music. “Check this out! Check this out! Yeah!

Interviewing Billings Senior graduate Linds Sanders a few weeks ago made me wish I could rap poems the way she can. The UM student is part of a new generation of performance poets taking on where the ...