U of I professor Ruby Mendenhall pours pain into writing as Urbana’s new poet laureate

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor Ruby Mendenhall, the 2024-2025 poet laurete of Urbana. Reginald Hardwick/Illinois Public Media
Today's show included a rebroadcast of the following "best of" segment, first aired March 28, 2024: U of I professor Ruby Mendenhall pours pain into writing as Urbana’s new poet laureate.