Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

Over the past two days, visitors to the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History were greeted with the sight of traditional indigenous dress and the sounds of native languages filling the air. The Oklahoma ...

McLane was a National Book Award finalist for her collection “This Blue,” her work merges past and present, drawing on ...

By George Longenecker Poet Joyce Thomas reminds us that our species is neither omniscient, omnipotent, nor immune from ...

Sometimes, Sri Lanka native Indran Amirthanayagam is overwhelmed by an emotion. It could be sadness, or it could be great joy. "I want to get it out," said Amirthanayagam, 64, of Washington, D.C., who ...

A reading by American Book Award–winning poet dg nanouk okpik. okpik’s second collection of poems, "Blood Snow," tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a ...

Joy Harjo, the first Native American Poet Laureate in the U.S., is releasing two illustrative books this month, centered ...

Poetry, art, religion are precious things,” wrote John Dewey (1859–1952), a Vermont native and influential American ...

What It’s About: The latest from The Verge journalist and novelist Nguyen (“New Waves”) follows four Vietnamese American cousins whose lives are thrown into disarray after the U.S. government ...

Asking 25 books to represent 25 years of artistic progress within the many traditions that feed into American poetry was difficult enough. For all the variety that emerged in this process ...

PARKERSBURG — Parkersburg native David B. Prather announced the publication of his collection of poetry, “Bending Light with Bare Hands: a Journal of Poems,” from Fernwood Press.