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Jun 30

‘Citizen’ is our July book club pick

By Courtney Vinopal

Our July book club pick for Now Read This is Claudia Rankine's "Citizen: An American Lyric"…

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Apr 18

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Landmark Oregon bookstore strains to survive the pandemic

By Tom Casciato

The independent book business has been battered in recent decades, as locally owned sellers strained to compete with the online-giant Amazon. But the COVID-19 crisis has forced many to close their doors, depriving both readers and writers the spaces they…

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Feb 13

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Tongo Eisen-Martin’s Brief But Spectacular take on poetry as revolution

Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin was born and raised in San Francisco, a city whose rapid gentrification he critiques in his work. Through his writing, Eisen-Martin seeks to “facilitate resistance” to a culture that he believes perpetuates domination of those who are…

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Nov 08

How veterans who write poetry can help bridge divides

By James Dubinsky, The Conversation

To better understand veterans' sacrifice, read their poems.

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Sep 19

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U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo on opening a ‘doorway of hope’ for indigenous artists

By Jeffrey Brown, Kira Wakeam

Joy Harjo, the new poet laureate of the United States, is the first Native American to achieve that honor. Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with Harjo, a member of Oklahoma's Muscogee Creek Nation, in Tulsa to discuss how arts shaped…

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Jun 26

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At this D.C. jail, a book club offers a safe space

By Jeffrey Brown, Rachel Wellford

Reading and writing can provide a profession, a passion or an escape from reality. In Washington, D.C., the Free Minds Book Club positions the activities as mechanisms through which incarcerated people can express themselves in healthy and constructive ways. As…

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Jun 19

Joy Harjo becomes first Native American named U.S. poet laureate

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement that Harjo helped tell an "American story" of traditions both lost and maintained, of "reckoning and myth-making.

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Mar 15

W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91

By Hillel Italie, Jennifer Kelleher, Associated Press

A Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, Merwin completed more than 20 books.

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Feb 08

When you turn 29, ‘metamorphosis is not optional,’ this poet says

By Lora Strum

For poet Hala Alyan, year 29 was an "emotional border" comprised of necessary endings and new beginnings.

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Jan 21

How the public domain offers new life to these poetry classics

By Lora Strum

2019 marks the first mass copyright expiration in more than two decades, freeing up works like Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" for academic, creative and commercial use.

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