Jones, who in 2021 was selected as the youngest and first person of color to serve as Alabama's poet laureate, pointed to that moment as fueling her passion for poetry. "That day, I went home from ...

Alumnus makes largest gift in history of Creative Writing Program in support of fellowships for the up-and-coming.

Speaking of taking flight, Hagans is one of eight Montgomery artists who will soon fly to Paris, France, to have works featured in the Urban Art Fair on April 24-27. Along with Hagans, the selected ...

At the age of 7, Ashley Jones dressed as Harriet Tubman and recited lines of Eloise Greenfield’s poem about the abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad to her second grade class ...

ASHLAND Nature has always been a friend to Steve Holt. “As a young man, I often went to the hills for solace, roaming and thinking,” he said, noting he hunted and fished with his father, but that wasn ...

Hay Festival has unveiled the full programme for its 38th spring edition in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, with more than 600 events over 11 days, 22 May–1 June 2025.

Artists expected to perform are Grammy-nominated Amythyst Kiah, Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones, 2019 United States Artists Fellow Rebecca Gayle Howell, 2024 MacArthur Fellow Loka Ashwood ...

The culminating performances will take place in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 8 at the Lakeshore Foundation ... Write to Heal study facilitator, Birmingham Poet Laureate and UAB AIM artist in residence.

The city of Louisville is celebrating the 100th anniversary of "The Great Gatsby." Louisville is featured prominently in the iconic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was known to frequent The Seelbach ...

POSITIONED in a quiet, private lane in the hamlet of Burcot, Treeland House is a striking modern home that offers space and seclusion. A golf professional and his wife moved from East Hagbourne into ...

Soyinka Language! The source of Wole Soy­inka’s fame; the reason also for his alienation by the average reader! The Nobel Laureate is a man of complex locution. Besides his political for­ays, the ...