Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.

The use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal prosecutions has been a contentious issue for decades, stirring debates over free speech, artistic expression, and fair trial rights. This practice ...

Vedan means hunter in Malayalam. Recall that Valmiki, the author of the Ramayan once referred to as Ratnakara, was also a hunter. In Kerala, where just about every other person you run into is ...

And in this case, we wanted to share three rap music one-hit wonders from the 90s that may just inspire you to write your own rhymes. “Insane In The Brain” by Cypress Hill from ‘Black Sunday ...

The central premise of Rhyme Storm is that it uses A.I.-driven voice recognition and machine intelligence to help you learn to freestyle. For those who don’t know a freestyle from a programming ...

Poems top the Billboard Hot 100: This week, Bruno Mars’ “That’s What I Like” wrested the No. 1 spot from Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble.” The two songs are a study in pop contrasts. On ...

Serenity Jackson, a 14-year-old Worcester student who has made a splash already on the Worcester hip-hop scene, is the city's new youth poet laureate.

It helped that “Ming” is easy to fit into a rhyme given how many words you can play off of it, but Yao became a somewhat unlikely staple of rap music that has persisted long after his career.

This year, rap fans saw a reconciliation that they likely never imagined would happen. Gucci Mane and Jeezy had been rivals since the early 2000s, after things went south over their 2005 track "Icy." ...

You could barely escape poetry back in the day. Newspapers commissioned bits of doggerel to print between columns. The N.A.A.C.P.’s doughty house organ and beacon to Black America, “The Crisis ...