It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

Key's Charles is a sensitive, kind man who uses awkward colloquialisms ("wowsers in your trousers!") to compensate for his lack of social graces. At heart, he's just a fan. "The Ballad of Wallis ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of need. Either way, I’d love to know why it matters to you.

McKay often wrote in the Jamaican dialect, and while his poetry highlighted socioeconomic inequalities, it also celebrated the dignified lives in the Black community. The first stanza is excerpted ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

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The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Friend, Grand Tour, Viet And Nam, Holy Cow and documentaries The Encampments, which is super timely, and Secret Mall Apartment are peppering theaters in major markets.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The 25th Phoenix Film Festival commenced last night with The Ballad of Wallis Island opening the event. In The Ballad of Wallis Island, Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) is a ...

Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden in The Ballad of Wallis Island Alistair Heap/Courtesy of Focus Features A carefully considered mix of humor and melancholy glows in the fragile sunshine that bathes ...

The genial comedy “The Ballad of Wallis Island” showcases an especially distinctive member of the last category: Charles, a lonely, gregarious kook whose most fervent wish is to witness a ...