A spoken word event has been praised for offering a "safe space to be seen and heard" by a poet. The monthly open mic poetry night, called Rushden Rhymes, welcomes first time performers as well as ...

The monthly open mic poetry night, called Rushden Rhymes, welcomes first time performers ... "It can be riotously funny and it can be heart wrenchingly sad, and I think it's so important as ...

Author Michael Rosen has said rhyming patterns within children ... including Fantastic Mr Dahl, Sad Book and On The Move: Poems About Migration. To receive the best stories in your inbox every ...

Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports from the opening performance of the National Folk Festival, which is off to a great start.

Benmont Tench was a founding member of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and has spent decades as a session musician and ...

This interweaving of poems and moments seeks to expand and complicate the Southern ... a farmer in need of a scarecrow, a sad little boy and his very ill sister, and finally a doll mender and an old ...

In Reality Blues, Meaghan Garvey tries to find out what is real, song by song. This week, she talks with the London-based experimental artist Aya Sinclair about her excellent new album, getting sober, ...

And with that, sometimes you’re also alternating really emotional, timeless songs that tend toward the sad — the ones you ... Hangman,” based on an old poem about demogogues, that some ...

J.M. Allen’s traditionally published book “Real Rhyming Poems” is available at the Rochester Public Library, some area schools and coffee shops. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local ...