Come spring, Heritage High School graduate Lane Shuler will leave the mountains of Townsend behind for life on the road. Oh, he’ll still make the mountain community in which he makes his home a base ...

Canton hip-hop artist Light Da Flow Minista is receiving rave reviews for her contribution to J. Cole's new album on the song ...

Literary heads take note: a new poetry compilation dubbed The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop has been released just today by Haymarket Books. Filled with the writings of 78 ...

I can only imagine what it was like during that time of struggle and racism,” J. Ivy said. “Tom Lee risked it all. He could not swim but fished for lives. I can only imagine the struggle and racism in ...

An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Randall Horton (1961) -- Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem / Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962) -- An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / ...

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers July 5-11. It took roughly nine years for the touring “Poetry vs. Hip-Hop” ...

Poet Sara Robinson will speak about the value and relevance of poetry at the Friends of the Library monthly meeting on April 1 at 10 a.m. A staple of centuries past, poetry seems to be a lost art. Yet ...