Poetry Aug 14 ‘The human capacity to carry many things at once’ For poet Ada Limón, carrying both the joys and sorrows of a child-free life is a testament to the human ability to exist with many things piled on our shoulders at once. By Jennifer Hijazi
Poetry Jul 30 To describe the trans experience, this poet created a new dialect The language of Jos Charles' “feeld” is like an artifact from a different time, a kind of “lost Middle English” concieved to describe the trans experience in new ways. By Jennifer Hijazi
Poetry Jul 23 This new poetry anthology honors the scope of native writers There is “grass and apologies, bones and joy, marching bands and genocide, skin and social work” and much more in the work of the 21 native writers featured in the collection. By Jennifer Hijazi
Poetry May 14 A poet’s advice to new grads: Be curious, embrace failure and ‘jump’ Poet Jason Reynolds offers sage advice to graduates ... and the rest of us. By Jennifer Hijazi
May 07 How Zora Neale Hurston captured the poetry of African-American folklife By Jennifer Hijazi A long-lost manuscript by the famed author is finally being published. Continue reading
Apr 30 The poet laureate wants you to read this poem By Jennifer Hijazi "There is so much noise in our culture. So many frantic, angry, unreliable voices.... Poetry is an antidote to that."… Continue reading
Apr 24 A poet’s love letters to the outdoors By Jennifer Hijazi Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil writes a love letter to the planet in her latest poetry collection "Oceanic."… Continue reading
Mar 12 The homeland left behind, captured in a poem By Jennifer Hijazi For Shauna Barbosa and other poets of the Cape Verdean diaspora, the longing for a far-away home is an important theme. Continue reading
Feb 19 ‘What we did while we made more guns’ confronts the violence of extreme belief By Jennifer Hijazi Dorothy Barresi's “What We Did While We Made More Guns” examines Americans’ anxieties and moral uncertainties in poems on international torture, war and police brutality. Continue reading