Singer, rapper, spoken word artiste, author, and entertainment journalist, Tofarati Ige, popularly known as Grand Tycoon, has recounted how one of his spoken word pieces inspired a young woman to make ...

Organized by researchers with the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team at the University of Minnesota, the poetry sessions ...

'It is a strange thing to put your own name to a book, knowing that such a river has been fed by streams of makers, thinkers and collaborators...' Acclaimed poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin introduces her ...

The works of Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters and Vachel Lindsay — known collectively as the Sangamon River poets — will come ...

These birth dates carry the vibration of 1—leadership, courage, and drive. Ruled by the Sun, our luminary of higher ...

Every school child learns the mythology of Paul Revere's ride. Though the truth is murkier, the story has inspired ...

A native truth: the present is as beautiful as it is brutal,” Billy-Ray Belcourt writes in the first poem in his collection ...

Retired Urbana High faculty, administrators and office personnel pitched in for a plaque now displayed on the wall above the ...

When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a ...

This week’s fiction ranges from reimagined Greek myths to the challenges of middle-age, and in non-fiction there’s Joanna Lumley, a history of female aviators and an examination of Silicon Valley’s ...

Smith's debut album ushered in a new era of rock and roll. Critic Ken Tucker reviews the new anniversary edition of Horses, plus we listen back to Terry Gross' 1996 and 2010 interviews with Smith.

Atwood for the first, and only, time in the autumn of 2010. She was 71, celebrating the 25th anniversary of her Handmaid’s ...