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Expanded HOPE: Juvenile Offenders Write Poetry to Cope with Incarceration
In writer Ann Georgescu’s third article on HOPE, she looks at how one of the...
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Beyond Reading, Adult Literacy Is Survival
Literacy is survival. It’s a housing application, a citizenship test, health insurance, a job that...
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Big Mike's B-town: Abegunde, Writing to Heal
Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde has been given many names, each one representative of her own...
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Ross Lockridge Jr., a Great American Tragedy
In 1948, Ross Lockridge Jr. died by suicide in Bloomington just months after his best-selling...
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Page vs. Stage: The ‘Deep Rift’ in Poetry Today
Poet Michelle Gottschlich considers the differences between page and spoken word poetry — between personal...
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Poet Chris Mattingly Explains How Vulnerability Is His Greatest Strength
In this interview recorded last summer, poet Chris Mattingly talks with Dave Torneo about how...
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Book by Local Poet Ross Gay Selected as Finalist for the National Book Award
The National Book Foundation just announced the Finalists for the National Book Award. Among them...
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David Torneo: Bloomington's Ambassador of Poetry
Publisher, poet, playwright, promoter — all of these describe David Torneo, but you could just...