When Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi met backstack at VH1’s Big in ’04 Awards ... things you hear about in songs and read about in poetry. My knees were weak,” she told The Advocate.

Never in doubt of his own abilities, Edgar Allan Poe pursued extremes in literature and in life.

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

Tonight on the popular VH1 reality series “Love & Hip Hop: Miami,” season 6, episode 16, “Acting Up,” finds Ray J. planting seeds of animosity between Amara and Pinkydoll, both of whom ...

Angie Stone, neo-soul singer and member of the pioneering all-female hip-hop group the Sequence, has died at the age of 63. The singer’s rep Deborah R. Champagne told TMZ that Stone died in a ...

Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems don’t have to be perfect, but this one pretty much is. I mean that less as praise — though it ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

Alongside musicians like Erykah Badu, Macy Gray and Lauryn Hill, Ms. Stone was part of the neo-soul movement of the late 1990s and 2000s, which blended traditional soul with contemporary R&B ...

Now three years on, her patient pursuit for perfectionism pays off on ‘Hope Handwritten’. The whole album journeys through the gamut of messy emotions that come with opening yourself up to ...

Roy Ayers, the jazz and R&B musician known as the "godfather of neo-soul" music, has died following a "long illness." He was 84. The news was shared Wednesday night to Ayers' social media accounts ...