The Ned R. McWherter West Tennessee Cultural Arts Center held an art gallery reception, celebrating two exhibitions. In the upstairs gallery, the Griot Collective of West Tennessee presented “The ...

Knoxville will mark Black History Month in 2025 with art and performances, plus a "Conversation with a Legend" featuring Beck ...

Near the end of poet Maria Zoccola's "Helen of Troy ... we find her Helen living as a restless housewife and mother in Sparta, Tennessee, circa 1993. Her emotionally detached husband may not ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...

Poets have a way of incorporating other poets ... this quote from Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art”: “The world is not the mere collection of the countable or uncountable ...

Baraka announced. The Poet Laureate will serve a two-year term starting this year with the goal of promoting the literary arts and encouraging residents in their creative writing pursuits.

Once a month, the members of the Pullman Poet Society gather at Centennial Station Arts Center to talk about all things poetry, a celebration of the written and spoken word. “We’re a forum to ...

won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. The goal is, as noted on social media, “to create integrated and enhanced art experiences that will involve and enrich the whole community.” ...

The world knew Jimmy Carter as a president and humanitarian, but he also was a woodworker, painter and poet, creating a body ... that is his enduring legacy. Creating art provided “the rare ...

Maura Healey signed an executive order Monday to establish a poet laureate of Massachusetts ... Julian E.J. Sorapuru is an Arts Reporter at the Globe and can be reached at julian.sorapuru@ ...

Leaders of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and Metro Nashville are at odds over a deal for a new venue. No agreement has been reached since lease negotiations for a new East Bank performing ...

Piedmont Arts brought poet, scholar and musician TJ Anderson III to Martinsville for a free talk featuring readings of his ...