MotherSong, a poem play performance by Annette Billings and Dr. Jennifer Gordon, is 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15 at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library.

Spotlight: Writers-in-Conversation featuring Mitchell S. Jackson Thursday, March 12, 6-7:30 p.m. Cascadia Art Museum, 190 ...

New Mexico State University has acquired the literary archives of poet and publisher Bobby Byrd, co-founder of the El Paso-based independent publishing house Cinco Puntos Press. The acquisition brings ...

Kris Kristofferson’s plain-spoken poetry drew hundreds of artists, including Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, and The Grateful Dead ...

Hot Springs poet Annabel Heathcoat will be tonight's feature poet for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Ave.

Pat Parker wrote about the negotiations required to survive in a society that rarely recognized the complexity of Black women’s lives.

Urban Beat launched a new event Sunday called “Pzazz ... An Afternoon of Poetry and Jazz,” featuring women performers in recognition of International Women’s Day.

Local legend "Diamond" Dave Whitaker passed on March 2. His friends and colleagues remember him for his poetry, politics, and ...

Most people would never put Shakespeare and Kendrick Lamar in the same sentence. One composed sonnets for the Elizabethan ...

Anthony Kiedis details his struggle with addiction in the opening verse. A struggle that took the life of the band’s founding guitarist, Hillel Slovak. And nearly did the same to Slovak’s replacement, ...

One thing a beatnik cannot abide is a square. The bearded, sandaled beat likes to be with his own kind, to riffle through his quarterlies, write craggy poetry, paint crusty pictures, and pursue his ...

Short on cartography but long on information, this pictorial map gives a small glimpse at the brief (but cool, daddio) beatnik era in the southland. The main areas of activity in the U.S. are in New ...