For five decades, the Tampa Tribune has honored the top 3 percent of seniors graduating from public and private schools based on their grade-point averages. Those who submit an essay vie for annual college scholarships honoring former Tribune publisher R.F. "Red" Pittman. ...more

May 18, 2009

Nicholas Hughes, the son of poet Sylvia Plath, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia Wevill, did the same. He was 47. ...more

March 23, 2009

The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts presents an inspirational and engaging exhibit of photographs taken by 24 students at Van Buren Middle School. ...more

February 4, 2009

In 1964, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, Cassius Clay became world heavyweight champion and Tampa Theatre still had a "whites only" admittance policy. ...more

January 28, 2009

When he sat down with a pen and paper and tried to reflect on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with an eye to the future presidency of Barack Obama, Tampa Poet Laureate James Tokley didn't know what he would say. ...more

January 21, 2009

T'is Now, The Coming Age! (Presidential Inauguration) By James E. Tokley Sr. Poet Laureate, Tampa ...more

January 20, 2009

Port Richey Tuskeegee Airman's Widow to Speak Mildred Wilson, the widow of Tuskeegee airman Wilmer H. Wilson, will give the keynote address at the African American Club of West Pasco's observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday Monday. ...more

January 16, 2009

Francisco Ojeda took a stab at haiku and landed in the water. ...more

November 25, 2008

More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets. ...more

July 20, 2008

A year and a half ago, former Mayor Dick Greco jokingly suggested that if his friends wanted to erect a statue to him, it should depict him sitting on a bench. ...more

May 30, 2008