A Kings County theater troupe will transform Ditmas Park’s Stratford Road into a free, public celebration of the 455th birthday of William Shakespeare. “Shakespeare on Stratford (Road)” will take ...

What would Allen Ginsberg do? That question still drives poets and artists at Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, which Ginsberg co-founded in Boulder more than four decades ...

Poet Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday is Friday, May 31, and there are several ways that locals might choose to celebrate. Of course, they can pull a volume of Whitman off the shelf and turn to a poem ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Curated by veteran actor Paul Hecht, this series celebrates the birthdays of ...

OpenRoad Poetry has put together an afternoon of poetic, lyrical, acoustic, and mixed genre performances for Rescue Poetix Birthday Poetry Showcase and Open Mic Fundraiser at The Box Cafe in Jersey ...

Sports legends: They're just like us in that they're not very good at writing poems! Actually, retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre's birthday poem to NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. is pretty good: ...

Everyone has a birthday which they meet with varying levels of joy and ambivalence each year. Birthday Poems, edited by Jason Shinder (Tales from the Couch: Writers on Therapy), underscores this fact ...

A little more than two decades ago, poet Suzanne Nothnagle and the late artist Anna Held Audette (1938-2013) were invited to speak in New Hampshire at the regional conference of the Society for ...