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The Heart of America Germans from Russia and Prairie Village Museum welcomed Michael Miller, emeritus director of the North Dakota State University Library to m

The 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center's Spring literary season continues in May and June with readings by acclaimed authors Isabel Allende, Lorrie Moore and Miriam Toews, poet Willie Perdomo – and a dramatic reading of Seamus Heaney's work by actor Ben Whishaw, among other events.

I found myself among the reporters on the red carpet at Macy's Glamorama party this fall, watching as a march of B- and C-listers chatted up the fashion and lifestyle press who'd lined up to collect quippage for transmission to their audiences, while waiting for the night's sole A-lister, the mega-wattage Beyonce Knowles, to make

What might bloom in non-being?

And the Defense Department rolled out new policy steps yesterday in response to the major leak of U.S. intelligence.

And VP Kamala Harris wraps up her trip to Africa.

Minnesota’s members of Congress and staff took more than two dozen trips last year to places as diverse as Fargo, N.D., Spain and Tel Aviv, Israel.

Despite overwhelming testimony opposing the bill, the House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee passed HB 1446 after a few modifications. The bill now goes to the house floor for a vote.

Ilya Kaminsky, professor of creative writing at Princeton, and Patricia Smith, visiting professor of creative writing, have been named Academy of American Poets Chancellors. Smith will join the Princeton faculty effective Sept. 1.

Mark Strand of Fargo writes, "This is a serious infraction and should not be treated as 'kids will be kids.'”