Gael Diaz, a sophomore political science and Spanish major, has been learning English his entire life. Living in a predominantly English speaking area, Diaz has struggled to connect with his peers. To...
Graduate and undergraduate students share their works in progress at the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) incubator series event at the Commonwealth House. The event gave students the opportunity to practice...
The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) incubator series held its first meeting of the year, providing writers with an opportunity to showcase their work.
The event took place on Friday, Sept. 26, at the Commonwealth...
Combining Spanish and English, the Bilingual Poetry Reading event allowed attendees to listen and discuss poetry originally written in Spanish to immerse themselves in the language.
On Friday, April...
Attendees at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference were given the opportunity to come and listen to poetry be read in both Spanish and English and discuss what they heard with each other. This event...
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,...
