I recently saw Austin’s Hip Hop Theater Explosion, the city’s equivalent of the old Motown Revue—a showcase for the city’s leading rappers, slam poets, tap dancers, break-dancers and much more. This ...

For most Americans, reading a book of poetry is not their idea of a good time. See a movie, go out to dinner, but don’t curl up with a volume of verse. For this reason, the American Academy of Poetry ...