If you want to know the true meaning of love, find someone that looks at you the way Mamoudou Athie looks at a chair in ...

Rhode Island’s Black History Month kicks off with the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading on February 2. The event runs from 1-3 p.m. at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) ...

As President Donald Trump outlined in an executive order, it is federal policy that there are exactly two genders — no more, ...

Beth Ely Sleboda, the Village of Livonia Poet Laureate, shares words of optimism for the new year. She does so, as she often ...

Stories of dedicated community work, overcoming adversity and sporting achievement were honoured in the annual Sleaford ...

You'll find notable concerts elsewhere around the area, too, including a Bradenton-born musician with a national audience playing a hometown show, a double-bill of musical acts with Cajun and gumbo ...

The 5000 Black Afro-Futurist Series brings together creatives in Charleston SC to imagine a future where the African Diaspora ...

ESCANABA — Bay College announces the upcoming event, Makin’ Cake, a thought-provoking performance by Dasha Kelly Hamilton, taking place on Thursday, February 13 at 7 p.m. in the Besse Theater on the ...

Key West youth of all backgrounds and experience levels are invited to participate in a free poetry workshop as part of the ...

Lima Poet Laureate Laurin Wolf, reading from Garrison Keillor's "Good Poems," said American poetry is the truest journalism we have as she introduced "Good Poetry for Hard Times" to celebrate David ...

The 57th annual Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition will start accepting submissions starting Feb. 1 through Feb. 28, the Grand Rapids Public Library announced Thursday. Any Kent County resident 5 years or ...

David M. Parsons, 2011 Texas State Poet Laureate and Montgomery County resident, has a new memoir out from TCU Press.