Poet Katie Berta will read her poetry at UNK next week. She shared that she always considered herself to be a writer even as ...

Carrie Classon After a while, no one wants to look like a tourist. Experienced travelers will buy a hat in a local store, convinced that having the same head covering will somehow make them ...

Berta, who calls Phoenix, Arizona, home, will stop in Kearney to share her work at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Discovery Hall on the ...

Many people, even avid readers, find themselves intimidated by reading or trying to write poetry. But, perhaps through a line ...

Grammy Award winner Melissa Manchester will bring her singing, songwriting/composing and acting skills to Columbus when she takes the stage as Mrs. Rose Brice, the 1908 Brooklyn, N.Y., Jewish saloon ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with ...

Why do melons get married in a church? Because they cantaloupe. If you’re a fan of corny jokes, that’s what you would call a certified knee-slapper. Simple one-liners, quirky dad jokes, and ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The speaker of that poem is absolutely not me. However, that line is rather tongue-in-cheek — I mean it to be heard as funny. But I actually value the fact that poets are freaks and that all we ...

Each month, many funny videos are posted to every corner of the internet — from the platform formerly known as Twitter, Instagram, Vimeo, TikTok, and sometimes other weird places we’ll have ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Memorizing a poem first thing in the morning became a way ... the Academy Award-winning director of “Parasite,” has turned his funny-sad excavations of life under capitalism into unlikely ...