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 ...

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Award-winning poet laureate and former probation officer, Simon Armitage, has crafted an ode to those working in the ...

Milwaukee therapist Cedric Hoard, also a spoken word artist, is now a published author following a sold-out book signing and panel event Friday night.

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So the US is immediately introducing tariffs on goods imported from most foreign countries. That will (1) increase prices of these goods to US ...

As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...

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Why violate the ‘law of less work?’ Why should timing even matter for effort? It seems obvious that reason and nature would teach you to always avoid and dislike effort. A hummingbird that prefers a ...

Maya Prasad, an 11th Grade student representing Good Hope Country Day School in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, was recently named the 2025 U.S. Virgin Islands Poetry Out Loud champion, […] ...

Choosing the 10 best Kilmer roles was no easy feat, but we tried to include a mix of comedy, drama, and blockbuster work that ...