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Oct 30

This poet wants us to unlearn the words, ‘Sorry to be a woman’

By Elizabeth Flock

Watch women read these powerful lines of poetry from McKayla Robbin's collection "we carry the sky."…

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Oct 23

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Why this poet couldn’t avoid writing about the opioid crisis

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The opioid crisis has plagued poet William Brewer’s hometown in West Virginia. His vivid poems tell the story of the opioid epidemic from different voices and depict the sense of bewilderment people find themselves in as addiction creeps into their…

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Oct 23

‘Oh, they’re on the pills. We don’t really see them anymore.’

By Mary Jo Brooks

Author William Brewer didn’t want to write a book about the drug crisis decimating his state, but it was a topic he couldn’t avoid. Watching the people around him succumb to addiction, he set out to capture the crisis in…

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Oct 16

This poem shows what sexual abuse looks like

By Elizabeth Flock

“From One / who says, ‘Don’t cry. You’ll like it after a while,’” she writes. “And Two who tells you thank you / after the fact and can’t look at your face.”…

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Sep 29

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Navigating Seattle’s ever-evolving streets through poetry

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How do you capture Seattle’s complications, quirks and ever-changing population? A new digital project is mapping out the evolving city by collecting poems that tell unique stories, from growing up in an affluent neighborhood to memories of homelessness and cold…

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Sep 29

Mapping Seattle, poem by poem

By Lorna Baldwin

Seattle's "Poetic Grid" captures the rapidly changing city by asking people to write about locations that have meaning to them.

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Sep 25

How the irreverent poetry of the ’60s helped spawn punk music

By Elizabeth Flock

A new book traces how innovators of punk music interacted with New York School poets such as Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman.

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Sep 18

Why U.S. Virgin Islanders feel there’s no place they belong

By Elizabeth Flock

Hurricane Irma devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, leveling homes, knocking out power, and turning the landscape into a “battered wasteland” where some say media coverage was minimal and help was late to arrive. Now, the islands are under…

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Sep 05

How death row inmates at San Quentin are using poetry to examine the prison system — and themselves

By Elizabeth Flock

Prison literature has a long and rich history, stretching back to Jack London, Nelson Algren and Malcolm X. The genre includes powerful work from prisoners incarcerated on death row, which is often surfaced with the help of activists or artists…

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Aug 22

This poet is making sure women of the Bauhaus movement get their due

By Elizabeth Flock

The Bauhaus German art school of the early to mid-20th century is today associated with several things: its stark white modernist buildings, its emphasis on re-combining arts and craft, and the male artists and architects who taught there, including Paul…

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