A group of local Irish artists came together to collaborate on an epic tribute to County Laois. Inspired by the history, mythology, and beauty of Laois, Portlaoise-based poet Laura Murphy has composed ...
“I take the material from memory and things that have been lost and people who are gone and the past, but I’m trying to give it life again,” said Kasischke. Kasischke bases many of her poems on real ...
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WEST SPRINGFIELD –"Writing is everything to me," says poet Laura J. Chagnon. "It makes me feel empowered, and it fills my day with quality time." Yet she herself does not write or type her words.
Fiction creeps with voyeurs, its walls overridden by all-seeing vines. Men watch men. Women watch women. Readers watch everyone. “Looker,” a new novel by the poet Laura Sims, centers the female voyeur ...
Laura Mazza-Dixon is an environmentalist, a gifted organizer of artistic events in the Granby area, a passionate gardener, a hiker who rises early to trek the hills of Granby. She is a musician whose ...
When Laura Frantz first saw four poets at vintage typewriters creating poems on the spot during an event at the Smithsonian Institution, “I was awestruck,” Frantz told The Daily Progress. “It was ...