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Fairmont State University’s Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center will host two back-to-back events on Saturday, April 13. A new exhibition will be presented at noon and following

STEUBENVILLE — As good as 2023 has been in terms of fundraising for the Grand Theater, Scott Dressel, the lead volunteer for the restoration effort, is hopi

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — Odana Chaney, a creative writer and the development coordinator at the Blenko Glass Foundation, was selected as the 2024 New River Gorge Creative-in-Residence.

Odana Chaney of Culloden, W.Va., has been selected as the 2024 New River Gorge creative-in-residence.

Wausau Pilot & Review Four groups of regular people who made headlines by taking on major polluters and contamination in  EPA Region 5 will be

By Michelle Alfini Athens SHARE ATHENS, Ohio — In her home office, overlooking the rolling hills outside her home, Ohio’s poet laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour, is never far from the people and places that inspire her.  Just feet away is a case, containing tokens of her family history, her grandparents’ marriage license, a faded photo of her mother surrounded by aunts and uncles, and on the floo...

The Academy of American Poets Awards $1.1 Million to 23 Poets Laureate Across the Country - New York, NY (June 3, 2021)— The Academy of American...

Here’s what you can do in and around Athens this weekend.

Here’s what you can do in and around Athens this weekend.

Poets Adam Hughes and Renay Sanders will be featured at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Readers Series event. Hughes is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently “Allow the Stars to Catch Me When I Rise” (Salmon Poetry, 2017) and “Deep Cries Out to Deep” (Aldrich Press, 2017). Born and raised in central Ohio, he now resides in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is pursuing his master’s degree at Randolph College. He can be foun...