This year marks the first time a Rockford-area student has won in the Illinois Poetry Out Loud state competition in its 20-year history.

Julie Swarstad Johnson, an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has served as poet in residence at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. She is author of the collection ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore, and ...

Woe! Woe upon words and the world from the day the word ‘wojak’ wormed its way into the hallowed halls of traditionally published literature.

Incredible enough that it’s led to yoga and wellness becoming a way of life for Aylesworth. Owning a doctorate in education, Aylesworth has combined her interests in yoga, wellness, and love of ...

The Indian and Irish traditions share a poetic and mystical sensibility, demonstrating that the pursuit of spiritual wisdom and artistic expression knows no boundaries.

Adjunct instructor of music Meadow Bridgham and associate professor of English Liz Whiteacre collaborated for a special Faculty Artist Concert Series event on March 17 for a performance entitled ...

Staged by the National Theatre of Scotland, Through the Shortbread Tin sets out to explore the many-layered story of James Macpherson’s Ossian poems. We should expect a show full of questions and ...

The Egyptian Building in Chino Hills is a surprising strip mall restaurant made to look like the Abu Simbel temples in Egypt ...

The City of Boulder and OSMP deserve recognition for revisiting their decision to close Chapman Drive during the 2025 cycling season while the trailhead is being renovated. As a Boulder resident ...

Mfoniso Udofia’s cycle of nine plays about three generations of a Nigerian-American family has to be counted as the main event of Boston’s 2024/2025 theater season.

"They paved paradise, put up a parking lot." That iconic line from Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” remains timeless because there never seems to be a shortage of nature or culture flattened by greed ...