Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Poetry books arrived this week. The first was “In the Soup,” the second book of poetry by John Calderazzo. John lives in the foothills outs...

Michael Connelly, best-selling author and UF and Independent Florida Alligator alum is now writing about his days as a reporter in Daytona ...

A. Friend (not a real name) told me that she and her husband are traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to see the National Museum of Afri...

The story resumes... It's been a few weeks, but today I get back to my series "The Way Mike Worked," based on the Smithsonia...

My eight-year-old son Kevin and I were on our third day of cross-country travel from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Washington, D.C. I had promised Ke...

Received this letter from my U.S. Senator Mike Enzi today. It was a response to my postcard appeal back in March to Sen. Enzi, a member of...

I enjoyed my retirement party. Friends and coworkers gathered to see me off Friday with munchies and cake. My colleague and ace baker R...

Lance Corporal Nicholas G. Ciccone by Michael D. Fay, a portrait drawn during their duty in Afghanistan. Ciccone committed suicide in 2...

Mitt Romney wants to defund the National Endowment for the Arts. Once again, he's pandering to his supporters on the Far Right. And he d...

According to Grist , the arts are being recast as a revitalization strategy for our urban areas. Roberta Brandes Gratz, a longtime student...

When I was at the Casper College Literary Conference last month, I dropped by the Sunshine Apartments’ construction site across from the Nic...

Today I celebrate my 20th anniversary as a Wyoming resident. I was a relatively young man embarking on a new career in arts administration. ...

Stunned Wyoming arts advocates passed this along to me so I'm sharing it with you: House Votes against NEA Funding Cuts; Strong Comebac...

Artist's rendering of Casper's Sunshine II development that will include an arts space for resident and neighbors Here's a wh...

These listings come from the "Open Letter," the weekly newsletter of Denver's Capitol Heights Presbyterian/10:30 Catholic Comm...

I sent my condolences to the Kennedy family: I met Sen. Edward Kennedy on the deck of the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy during a NROTC midshipman c...

Bill Berkowitz reports in Talk To Action that the Religious Right is once again going after the National Endowment for the Arts: It used to ...

In the Feb. 15 New York Times , reporter Robin Pogrebin chronicled the odd story of how the $50 million for the National Endowment for the A...