This year there were 113 submissions from the U.P., significantly outnumbering the eight submissions from last year.

Shephalika Dhakal talks about her transition from poetry to songwriting, navigating the independent music scene, and her ...

Flickr My pal and fellow Tartan writer, Ian Giles, recently wrote an article about “why everyone should make bad drawings.” Despite my being artistically inept and generally ...

The creators of Artificial Intelligence bots designed them and continue to upgrade them after the fashion of their lived experiences. This is not surprising as it follows the pattern in which the ...

The second annual Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival returns to Albuquerque for five days this week, drawing over 75 of the top poets and spoken word artists from 30 cities across the United States. Like ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Joan Baez has spent the past 60 years singing protest songs. While many from her generation gave up on social justice activism, she carried on. She’s also recorded many Bob Dylan songs throughout her ...

Londonist asks someone random questions. This time it's eclectic author and tour guide Chris Roberts. Chris's previous books ...

It may be winter and there may be a biting chill in the air, but the dozen men and women who have packed this small sauna ...

Riley Asher-Stalbaum embodies poetry in motion. Whether during her childhood, when she would sit trackside to watch races, or ...