This year marks the first time a Rockford-area student has won in the Illinois Poetry Out Loud state competition in its 20-year history.

Incredible enough that it’s led to yoga and wellness becoming a way of life for Aylesworth. Owning a doctorate in education, Aylesworth has combined her interests in yoga, wellness, and love of ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few o ...

An exhibition, which opened in Blackburn Market, showcases work created through an Arts 2 Heal community-led project.

This year marks the 31st celebration of the Beall Poetry Festival. Baylor will host three prominent poets: Carl Phillips, ...

Baylor University will host a premier American literary event of contemporary poetry – the 31st annual Beall Poetry Festival, ...

Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, “We Contain Landscapes,” explores chronic illness, climate change, borders and ...

The artist was a fixture in the neighborhood for more than a decade, known for her risqué paintings — "the embodiment of this extremely important, extremely central Chicago archetypical artist," one ...

On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...

Irish genealogy will be the main topic when Sheila O’Haire Larmann speaks at 7 p.m. March 24 at the East Bank Regional ...

See how many works of prose and poetry by popular Irish authors you can find in this short scene — and build a reading list ...

Since singing about injustices in the 1960s, singer-songwriter Judy Collins, 85, has sung about social justice and equality.