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Kansas State University professor Traci Brimhall starts as the 8th poet laureate of Kansas on January 1, 2023.

Andrew Michael Johnson’s book of poetry and prose, “The Thread,” explores cosmic events and everyday moments.

Alex Tretbar spent five years in prison for his part in a drug-related shooting. His award-winning poetry takes inspiration from incarceration, addiction and The Velvet Underground.

Kansas City Actors Theatre is producing the two-person play about Calvin Trillin's late wife. The play was adapted from his memoir of the same name.

Vintage typewriters were once banished to basements and attics, but they’ve been making a comeback. For some collectors and enthusiasts, the machines are the ultimate remedy to the distractions of the digital age.

Kansas City author David Cantwell, who just published a new version of a book he wrote years ago, says Merle Haggard was 'constantly singing about the things that we're still arguing about today.'

Over the course of 2020, the 614 billionaires in America grew their net wealth by $913 billion.

Realizing they wouldn't be able to help him celebrate his 94th birthday, Willie Ricken's family decided to send their love via the U.S. Postal Service.

KCUR listeners get busy, creative and publicly minded under stay-at-home orders.

Missouri's Rep. Cleaver on congressional response to coronavirus, how Independence is weathering the pandemic, what government orders mean for civil liberties, how people are passing the time at home

In February 1920, the owners of eight independently owned black baseball teams met in Kansas City at the Paseo YMCA and the Negro National League was…

Segment 1: An article from The Atlantic sparked debate over the merits of gym class last year.Gym class in school is supposed to be fun. But according to…