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Poetry Aug 21

A poet grows up in the post-Columbine world

By Jennifer Hijazi

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.

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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."…

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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."…

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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.

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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.

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