Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner and her counterpart in Kansas, Huascar Medina, talk about their work, t...

Chris Raschka has illustrated more than 40 books, winning Caldecott Medals for The Hello, Go...

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer points to what he sees as the reasons for the erosion of public trust in today’s major media, laid...

Marking this year’s observance of Banned Books Week from September 18-24, a panel of veteran librarians from Kansas City-area libr...

In conjunction with the nationally touring exhibition Young at Art: A...

In a discussion of her book Beneath Missouri Skies...

Bestselling Kansas City author Candice Millard discusses her new book River of the Gods with the Library’s Anne Kniggendorf. In the mid-18...

Historian Emilye Crosby of the State University of New York at Geneseo discusses the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the crucial rol...

In a discussion of her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, New York urban revital...

Award-winning essayist and poet Taylor Brorby discusses his new memoir Boys and Oil, recounting the uneasiness of being gay in a rugged land of coa...