The high church silence in-between poems is a lonely place to be as a poet,” Iain Haley Pollock joked to the audience in Cheever House, lifting the mood of those who had gathered for his poetry ...
John Contreras is one of Milwaukee's hardest-working typewriter poets. He will be at the OnMilwaukee Spelling Bee and ready ...
For years, Lee Tonouchi has fostered a growing respect and love for Pidgin, a language once reviled as lazy, inferior — or ...
He crossed paths with William Burroughs, Terry Gilliam and Spitting Image while whipping up almighty grooves with his band Blurt. Now 82, he’s back on tour – and bracing for a warts-and-all documentar ...
The Daily World Book Nook is celebrating National Library Lovers Month throughout the month of February. Also, Feb. 1 kicks off Children’s Author and Illustrators Week, Feb. 4 is World Read Aloud Day ...
For UI alum and author Mike Chasar, poetry isn’t just an art form found in books. In his new book, The Poetry of Bob Dylan: Thirty Essays on Thirty Songs, Chasar and 30 other scholars make the case ...
Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the “music of poetry.” The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music by Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition, gives ...