After the release of its 2016 EP “Nightmares and Daydreams,” Long Island’s own MJT is set to make its return on Feb. 25 with its EP, “The World is a Broken Toy.”

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, English professor and Director of the Poetry Center at Stony Brook University, was recently granted $50,000 from the Whiting Foundation for his first book of poetry, “The Ground,” and to continue his craft.