poetry

Benjamin Johnson Oct 02, 2020 132

“Poetry … is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.” — Aristotle (384-322 BC), Poetics

Classical Poets Aug 17, 2018 2,536

Let’s say you like something or someone and you want to tell the world, “Hey, you’re great,” or “I admire that,” or “That thing looked so cool!” but you want to express it some way that is more meaningful than those plain words. This is your complete usable guide that also provides excellent examples.

Benjamin Johnson May 25, 2018 64

The classics offer artists endless inspiration, says baritone Darren Chase. Each classic piece not only captures its creator’s zeitgeist, but also becomes fertile soil for the works of...

Benjamin Johnson Jan 17, 2018 7

Li Bifeng, Chinese author, poet, and activist, has been working toward democracy in China for decades, where free speech is not tolerated. He wrote a report in 1998 about a courageous sit-in of a group of textile workers on a… The post ‘In This Country, We Can Only Hibernate’: The Story of Li Bifeng appeared first on Vision Times.

Benjamin Johnson Sep 05, 2017 13

Jazz and poetry are a natural fit. Langston Hughes, for example, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, was inspired by jazz and recorded his poems with accompaniment by jazz musicians....