Slow Wreckage is Crooker’s tenth book of poems. She has always been a sharp noticer, especially of the natural world and the visual arts. Reading her poetry feels like putting on a new pair of glasses ...

In Friday St. Paul show, expect the talented group to take on the issues of the day without much care for who might be ...

Poet, author and editor-in-chief of Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Karen Cline-Tardiff, of Norman, will be featured at Wednesday ...

The competition asked seven to 18-year-olds to get inspired by chalk streams, and the talent hasn't gone unnoticed.

In the '90s rom-com French Kiss, Meg Ryan's character Kate humorously offers up the details of her devirginization at 18 years old with a jock named Jeff. The experience apparently included a basement ...

Walter Bargen and Barbara Leonhard, two poets known and well-loved in mid-Missouri, recently released dispatches into the ...

Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes you can judge a writer’s standing by it. My 1990s-era paperback edition of ...

An art and poetry exhibition centered on squirrels might sound like mere fluff, but there’s more to “Squirrel Shenanigans: ...

The Arts & Climate Initiative and Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts released an anthology of short plays, ALL GOOD ...

Fellow First Wave member Diya Abbas performed three poems and introduced Smith with a glowing review of “Bluff.” Smith took ...