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Brian Turner was packed and ready to ship out for Iraq when his grandfather finally broke a decades’ long silence about his own combat experience. When…
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Kansas City author Adib Khorram talks about his new buzz-generating novel for young adults, Darius The Great Is Not Okay. It turns out, Khorram has a lot…
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It's okay not to be okay. That's the essential message of a new book for young adult readers by Kansas City author Adib Khorram.Darius The Great is Not…
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It's a stormy summer afternoon in Columbia, Missouri, when the writer Ibtisam Barakat arrives at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute for a book group…
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Annette Billings says poetry isn’t about precious kittens and pretty flowers. Rather, she says, the form often calls for much harder, more controversial…
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Segment 1: How do university students ensure their priorities have a voice in state government?Students in Kansas and Missouri have concerns that go…
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Kansas City poet and essayist Anne Boyer, who teaches writing at the Kansas City Art Institute, is among this year's winners of the Whiting Award, a…
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Robert Stewart has nurtured a lot of up-and-coming writers over the decades he's spent as an editor at New Letters magazine and as a writing instructor at…
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Segment 1: Local poet writes collection based on his working class roots. For Robert Stewart, poetry isn't ethereal — it's a working class endeavor. He…
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Nell Johnson Doerr’s husband rolled her up in a carpet so she’d survive Quantrill’s 1863 raid on Lawrence. Lying alongside the limestone foundation of her…
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Students at Central Academy of Excellence spent a semester composing short stories, plays and spoken word poetry about gun violence. The class was a…
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Updated Dec.12 — On Tuesday's St. Louis on the Air , host Don Marsh discussed the life and legacy of noted author and Washington University professor...