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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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Jul 24

This poet’s obsession with death led her to write about how to live

By Elizabeth Flock

Nicole Sealey's new poetry collection asks us if, like the Greek figure of Sisyphus, we can find contentment even when life is difficult and absurd…

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Jul 17

The rage and rebellion of the Detroit riots, captured in one poem

By Elizabeth Flock

Fifty years ago this month, a protest in Detroit turned into a riot, which turned into five days of violence that left dozens dead, thousands arrested and a city engulfed in flames. The poem "They Feed They Lion" chronicles the…

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Jun 19

Have we been taught poetry all wrong?

By Elizabeth Flock

Poet Matthew Zapruder say that we are too often asked to find the "hidden meanings" in poems, as if a poem is a riddle.

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Mar 27

Read these poetry postcards from immigrants, refugees and others touched by migration

By Elizabeth Flock

"Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration” launched this month with 25 poetry organization in 15 cities.

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Feb 13

Two fathers use poems to teach their kids about growing up black in America

By Elizabeth Flock

Their poems explore with tenderness and anxiety the joys and perils of being a father -- especially a black father -- and how to escape the mistakes of past generations.

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