The first recorded translation of the U.S. anthem, into German, was done by schoolteacher, choir director and future New ...

When Eduardo Martínez-Leyva first started writing poetry for his MFA thesis, he didn’t realize it would be years before he ...

"The Francisco Franco dictatorship in Spain lasted almost 40 years, from his military invasion of the Second Spanish Republic in 1936 and three years of civil war to his death in the fall of 1975," ...

Linda Drattell, who published the book of original poems last fall, is settling into an exciting life likely much different ...

Singer Nezza made headlines for singing the National Anthem in Spanish at a Los Angeles Dodgers game last weekend. Some criticized her for politicizing the song, but the Spanish version has a ...

On Saturday night, singer Nezza sang a Spanish version of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” also known as “El Pendón Estrellado,” at Dodger Stadium, despite being told by an unnamed representative of the ...

Shakira is speaking out against America’s treatment of immigrants and what it is like living in the United States today.

Father and son duo Leon Walker and Rob Young will blend spoken poetry and hip hop, gospel and soul music to carry the ...

The poet and playwright, who has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, discusses four books by her closest teachers.

Some of the best poetry in the world is written about complicated love, wrong love, toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I’ve tried to get over my own hang-ups and share that ...

Poem II from Adrienne Rich’s sequence Twenty-One Love Poems describes the poet waking in her lover’s bed following a dream. She tenderly writes: “You’ve kissed my hair / to wake me.” ...