THE YEAR OF THE RURAL ARTS 2014 was a program of events, conversations, and online features celebrating the diverse, vital ways in which rural arts and humanities contribute…
The 2012 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering; Jessica Brandi Lifland By Savannah Barrett Founded in 1985 by the Western Folklife Center, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is one of…
NPR’s Morning Edition recently featured a story about the Myrtle, Missouri Public Library and its new librarian Rachel Reynolds Luster. Longtime readers of Art of the Rural may…
Airborne, 2010; Alex Roulette as seen in fly over art By Kenyon Gradert, Course on Midwest Culture Series EditorA quality course begins with quality secondary sources. Such quotidian…
Arkansas State Folklorist Mike Luster at the Roundtable; Jennifer Joy Jameson By Rachel Reynolds Luster, Contributing Editor Last month Art of The Rural joined a host of artists…
The Giant Swing at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri It is significant, for example, that the common image of the country is now an image of the…
By Kenyon Gradert, Course on Midwest Culture series Editor Perhaps tied with Jules Verne and J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury may be my longest-running literary friend. His leatherbound anthology…
John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, and Bill Evans, recording in 1958 If there is any particular affinity I have for poetry associated with the South, it is…
Paul Muldoon was born in the countryside of Northern Ireland, between counties Armagh and Tyrone in Northern Ireland, in 1951. In his poem “Mixed Marriage,” he alludes not…
Bloom, 2010; Michael Lundgren One of the most valuable resources for considering how the arts intersect with and enliven the rural-urban exchange can be found in Places, “an…
