Waiaʻu Walker’s debut record explores themes of personal and professional change and the deep connection to her Hawaiian heritage.

Oregon governor Kate Brown reappointed Anis Mojgani as Oregon’s Poet Laureate for a second term. Mojgani, who originally started serving in the coveted position in May 2020, will now continue through 2024.

The 2,400 podcast submissions for NPR's contest offer a rare glimpse into the minds of young people.

Kickstart the week with three new songs hand-picked for your playlist.

An affordable housing project in Northeast Portland's Cully neighborhood is focusing on uplifting the city's Native American population.

Kickstart the week with three new songs hand-picked for your playlist.

Oregon School for the Deaf senior Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris is only the second deaf student to win the state's Poetry Out Loud competition by performing three poems using American Sign Language. He will now represent Oregon at the national semifinal round.

Portland artist Sa'rah Melinda Sabino explores what it means to be mixed race in America. Her work is at the intersection of basketball, Moroccan culture and worlds that don’t yet exist.

Artist Daniela Molnar does it all. She makes her own paint with pigments and water that she forages from the wild and in Portland. She is also a painter and a poet. Molnar has launched the New Earth Series, which includes shapes of glacier loss all over the world. She derives the "shapes of loss" from satellite images.

Local chamber choirs are coming together for a benefit concert to raise funds for Ukrainian relief.