“That is my family on the wall behind me,” Loretta Holloway, South Carolina’s official First Lady of Song, exclaimed as she beamed with pride in the hot Juneteenth sun at Unity Park in Greenville Wednesday. The wall behind her featured a mural dedicated to her ancestors, Elias Brown and Hattie Jordan Holloway. Community members kick-off […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A mass gathering of poets from across the nation will take place in Albuquerque for three days. Whether someone is Indigenous, part of the LGBTQ community, a recovering addict, or previously incarcerated, the Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival showcases poets from all backgrounds. National Multiple Sclerosis Society raising awareness for people living with […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A senior from Hillsboro’s St. Stephen’s Academy has been named Oregon’s 2024 Poetry Out Loud champion. Katie Lineburg received the top score at Saturday’s contest, organized by the Oregon Arts Commission in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts. “Katie exuded a confidence beyond her years,” said Dr. S. Renee […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For nearly 50 years, Idaho’s prison staffers have been serving Thomas Eugene Creech three meals a day, checking on him during rounds and taking him to medical appointments. This Wednesday, some of Idaho’s prison staffers will be asked to kill him. Barring any last-minute stay, the 73-year-old, one of the nation’s […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Kansas Day is Monday, Jan. 29. The state will be 163 years old. Some cowboys celebrated the state holiday early at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum. Community gathers to support League 42, Jackie Robinson statue still missing Every year on the closest Sunday to Kansas Day, they get together with cowboy […]
It started in Calvin Early’s backyard. The Miami native had a simple goal — to bridge the gap between the newcomers and veterans of South Florida’s spoken-word scene — but wanted to do so in a comfortable environment. So he told people to bring a dish representative of their culture and meet at his house. […]
A Moscow court sentenced two men to prison for participating in a reading of poems against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in public, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reported on Dec. 28. Russia passed sweeping censorship laws in March 2022 that essentially criminalized any public criticism of the invasion, contradiction of Russian propaganda, or […]