New Letters on the Air

Robert Stewart remembers when word got out that poet Amiri Baraka would read in Kansas City.Stewart, who ran the Midwest Poets Series at Rockhurst…

"One thing that a poet needs more than anything else — well, you need a sense of language — but you need people who love you. And I have that," the poet…

Bonnie Bolling remembers when she first stepped on Middle Eastern soil. A writer, Bolling was in an airport in Dubai and the call to prayer came over the…

Kansas City’s BkMk Press has a new collection of poetry by Native American writers about the Middle East.The book's title — The World Is One Place: Native…

Long before Tracy K. Smith was a poet, she was a young girl fascinated by the stars. That fascination was part of what inspired her book Life on Mars,…

Walter Bargen served as the first poet laureate of Missouri, in 2008 and 2009. His poems, essays, and stories have been published in more than 300…

Kansas City native Evan S. Connell died Thursday at the age of 88. His fiction and non-fiction works were wide-ranging, but he was probably best known…

Poet William Trowbridge has been appointed Missouri's next poet Laureate, and is the first Kansas City poet to receive the title.He was a guest on Central…