This week's naming of a new U.S. poet laureate reminds us how this literary form can foster wonder, understanding, and uplift ...

Language is the star, the ship, the sea, and the wreck in the Bethany Collins solo show, “Dusk,” now on view at Patron.

Singing with quietly blazing conviction, Joan Shelley delivers another album of easygoing, nuanced, endlessly hummable tunes.