Fire imagery abounds in music, literature, art, and scripture. It thrives at the center of ceremony and ritual around the world. We associate fire with…

Poet Porsha Olayiwola uses Afrofuturism to look back at history. “It’s reimagining, it’s reconciling, it’s inserting magic in a way that feels like…

This is the first installment of Audacious Little Things!Meet an anthropologist who explains why she thinks the human animal delights in making miniatures…

Poetry by young Hartford-area writers is reaching a wider readership -- on a CTtransit Bus.The “Poetry Bus” will inspire riders for the next few weeks…

April is National Poetry Month. It’s a time to celebrate poets and their craft. So we asked Hartford’s poet laureate, Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, if he…

We reair Colin's 2016 interview with Patti Smith at the Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford when she was in town for a Mark Twain House event. The…

Ghostwriting evokes an image of the writer who toils away in obscurity, secretly penning books credited to another. In reality, ghostwriters are just good…

At the start of this year, Jericho Brown addressed the graduates of the Bennington Writing Seminars Class of January 2020. He said, “If you can’t imagine…

There’s not a lot that rhymes with pandemic. This hour, Margaret Gibson, Connecticut’s poet laureate joins us for a conversation on poetry writing during…

"Dante's Inferno" is the most famous section of Dante Aligheri's 14,000 line epic poem, The Divine Comedy. But it's only the first part of Dante's long…