POET

Poet and rapper Oompa explains how she got her nickname, why she got into music and what it meant to perform at a Celtics game in her home city of Boston.

She also shares the meaning behind her upcoming single “Think Too Much”

Prize-winning poet Gerald Stern has died. Stern was one of the country’s most loved and respected poets. Stern wrote more than a dozen books and won the National Book Award in 1998 for the anthology “This Time.”

“What might we be if only we tried. What might we become if only we’d listen.

Poet Helen Lopez learned about money from her mother and by working as a teen. She believes a financial education can help Latinos achieve equity.

The 22-year-old breakout star of the Biden inauguration will recognize three honorary game captains the NFL has chosen for Super Bowl LV.

Los Angeles native Amanda Gorman delivers a poem at the Inauguration of Joe Biden.

American poet Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “candid and uncompromising” work

As the streaming wars near a fever pitch and viewers are targeted from every vantage point — Disney Plus has the Marvel and Star Wars brands! HBO Max counters with “Game of Thrones” and DC superheroes! — Apple TV Plus could be cast as the highly pedigreed and improbable underdog.

Actress Gina Rodriguez has apologized for using the N-word while singing along to “Ready or Not,” a song by The Fugees, in a now-deleted video on Instagram Tuesday. “I am sorry if I offended anyone by singing The Fugees, to a song that I love, that I grew up on,” Rodriguez said in a subsequent video on her Instagram stories....

Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead’s finest songs, has died at age 78. Hunter died Monday at his Northern California home with his wife, Maureen, at his side, former Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The family did not release a cause of death. “We...

Placido Domingo returns to the stage at the Salzburg Festival this weekend to perform for the first time since multiple women accused the opera legend of sexual harassment in allegations brought to light by The Associated Press. Two opera houses in the United States have canceled performances, but no European opera house has taken Domingo off the bill. Instead, some...

There’s no place like Boston for the Fourth, and the size of the crowds on the Esplanade Thursday night proved it.

Joe Biden, the current frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, once again came under criticism over the topic of race when Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey took issue with language Biden used at a Rainbow PUSH luncheon on Friday, NBC News reports. While discussing the need for criminal justice reform, Biden said people must continue to...

Joe Biden, the current frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, once again came under criticism over the topic of race when Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey took issue with language Biden used at a Rainbow PUSH luncheon on Friday, NBC News reports. While discussing the need for criminal justice reform, Biden said people must continue to...

Beyhive, get in formation. Beyoncé fans are currently devouring the audio release of her Lemonade film, which is now finally available across multiple streaming services.

The daughter of a librarian and our resident bookworm, Jenna’s a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the best new reads. Now, she wants to share her passion with TODAY fans.

Parking your car in Boston when a snowstorm hits is a pain, but Maureen and Heather from Caught in Southie are here to help.

A convicted killer who spent 20 years on the run, hiding in plain sight as a poet, went before the Massachusetts Parole Board to ask to be released Thursday. Norman Porter, 79, said he takes full responsibility for his crimes, which include two murders, followed by a prison break that kept him under an alias in Chicago for 20 years.

Norman Porter, a 79-year-old convicted murderer who escaped prison and lived as a poet, is fighting for his freedom at a parole hearing.

The book by 43 students and teachers who lived through February’s high school massacre gives a poignant, raw, and sometimes horrifically graphic look into the six-minute shooting spree where 17 died.