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YOUNGSTOWN — Lit Youngstown will have its second Winter Gala on Feb. 2. Classic characters from books is this year’s theme, and those attending are encoura

While many of Pittsburgh's underground waterways serve as stormwater and sewer networks, environmentalists and officials see potential in these covert culverts.

The Black River Audubon Society will present the program “Without a Field Guide” by Nicole Robinson at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Carlisle Reservation Visitor Center, 12882 Diagonal Road in LaGrange. Join them for an evening of poetry that will feature the award-winning poet reading from her recent book, “Without a Field Guide,” which […]

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“In my lifetime, I have never heard a church talk about reunification or peace between North and South Korea.”

The NewPages Big List of Literary Magazines features a vetted list of more than 1,600 online, print, and electronic literary journals.

Reading from "Geosmin," poetry. Free, but ticket required (livestream also available).

“From Birth to Bone” is from Sarah K. Lenz’s forthcoming essay collection, What Will Outlast Me? (Unsolicited Press 2023). Her nonfiction has appeared in Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, New Letters, The Fourth River, Pen Dust Radio, and elsewhere. Her work has been named Notable in Best American Essays three times.

Find more information on past Steinbeck Fellowship Fellows.

Dec 31, 2020 MARQUETTE — After organizers received over 500 votes, the five finalists for U.P. Poet Laureate for 2021-22 represent writing from Marquette, Alger, Houghton and Chippewa counties. They are April Lindala of Marquette, Beverly Matherne of Ishpeming-Marquette, M. Bartley Seigel of Houghton, Rosalie Sanara Petrouske of Marquette-Munising and Tyler Dettloff of Marquette-Bay Mills-Sault Ste. Marie. “Something that really excites me is that all five of the finalists are strong perfor...