Today marks the 100th birthday of the late Pierre Boulez (March 26, 1925–January 5, 2016), the New York Philharmonic's Music Director from 1971–77. In commemoration of his centennial, the New York ...

A poem from the 8th century “The Hermit’s ... Secondly, he recited Seamus Heaney’s “In Memoriam” which is about that sacred quiet time with his mother when everyone's away at Mass.

A striking figure – 1.93 metres tall and strongly built – Jonty looked like a natural lock forward but in fact his passion was English literature, especially poetry. He wrote verse all his life, ...

The guitar of the renowned troubadour Eduardo Sosa, who died on February 12, was donated to the Pablo Hernández Balaguer Music Museum in Havana as part of the 62nd Pepe Sánchez Trova Festival.

LOCALS have been paying tribute to a “much-missed” friend, following the news that artist Mark Bennett passed away last month.

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

The late Ernie Harwell's contributions to the Detroit Tigers are truly immeasurable. In honor of his legacy, I have crafted a ...

Francis X. Tannian, professor emeritus of urban affairs and one of the founders of the Biden School at the University of Delaware, passed away peacefully on March 1, 2025, at Cokesbury Village in ...

Publisher Herman Graf, who died this month at 91, was the last of a breed. He came up in publishing’s heyday—a wild, chaotic time when the industry was driven by sheer force of personality and ...

The Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning" is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.  "Sunday Morning" ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

Thomas A. Vanderslice, an accomplished scientist and businessman whose generosity to his alma mater is exemplified in academics and brick and mortar alike at Boston College, died on October 9. He was ...