In celebration of Black History Month, a jazz quartet performed and taught University of Kentucky students about the history of jazz and its roots in African American culture.
The Center for Academic...
Current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón returned to her home of Lexington, Kentucky, Thursday, Nov. 10, to read from three books she wrote during her 12 year stay here. She read, “Bright Dead Things”...
As an avid lover of spoken word and poetry, I am excited for but critical of the 2023 Grammy nominations for the Spoken word category for this upcoming awards show. Officially titled “Best Spoken Word...
In preparation for the current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s upcoming reading at Transylvania University on Thursday, Nov. 10, I bought three of her most recent poetry books, “The Carrying” (2018),...
It is always refreshing for me to read from a poet of color who comes from a different cultural background than I do. Mostly because when I read work from poets who come from different parts of the black...
Crystal Wilkinson, an English professor in UK’s College of Arts and Sciences, was inducted as the state's poet laureate on April 24, 2021 as part of the Kentucky Writers Day celebration. The celebration...
In 1991, South Carolina native Nikky Finney came to Lexington to perform at a poetry reading titled, “The Best of Southern Writing.”Before Finney, who is black, was added to the list of performers,...
Joy Priest had a folder full of poems but didn’t know she could be a poet. Priest had been a writer for as long as she could remember, but as an undergraduate student at UK, she hadn’t yet thought...
Michael (Mike) Posner has been in the music world for quite some time now. He was featured on Big Sean’s first mixtape, a series of studio and poetry albums, an album under the name Mansionz with duo...
When I was about 8 years old, my great-grandparents gave me a copy of The Thread That Runs SoTrue by Jesse Stuart for Christmas. I already loved to read, but for some reason that book didn’t appeal...
What is America? That was the question addressed at Creaux’s event, Poetry in Motion, on Sept. 11.Poetry in Motion is an open-mic poetry slam night hosted at Creaux, a bar in downtown Lexington, one...
The scene was set: shades pulled, lights off, fairy lights on. About 40 students filled the room, all cozy in their chairs, waiting for brave poets to “bare their souls” through spoken word. Each pair...
