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In the fall of 1918, more than a million U.S. soldiers faced a better trained and more experienced German army on the Western Front of World War I. Th...

The son of migrant farm workers in California, Juan Felipe Herrera traces his love of poetry to childhood and singing songs about the...

When her daughter was born nearly four months premature, Deanna Fei confronted a shattering question: Had she delivered a child or lo...

Erik Didriksen, a New York musician and Tumblr poet featured in Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, and the A.V. Club, has cleverly reimagined more than 1...

The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided. They have tro...

Jane Austen remains famous today for Pride and Prejudice and other novels in which she reflects on the life of the British land gentry at the end of t...

It's not just bullies in the schoolyard that should worry us. Charles Derber and Yale Magrass point to a larger, mor...

Two of the world’s leading writers of epic fantasy – Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small) and...

Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a m...

Start your MidAmeriCon II day at the Kansas City Public Library with a presentation by science fiction/fantasy authors Beth Cato and...