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Poetry Feb 08

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

By Lora Strum

Poetry Jan 21

How the public domain offers new life to these poetry classics

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.

By Lora Strum

Poetry Nov 28

One poet’s advice for feeling at home in the unfamiliar

It is in our quiet observations, poet Jenny Xie says, that we can find ourselves when we’re on the move.

By Jennifer Hijazi

Poetry Nov 05

America’s poet laureate shares a poem for you to take to the polls

A new poetry collection invites readers to explore the diversity of American experiences in a different light.

By Jennifer Hijazi

Poetry Oct 22

A journalist’s death by a repressive government, remembered in verse

Marie Colvin "was killed in an attempt to silence her and others reporting from that place,” poet and friend Alan Jenkins said.

By Lora Strum

Oct 17

In the wake of Hurricane Michael, this poet recognizes the way disaster can change you

By Lora Strum

Poet Heather Jacobsen can't forget how a hurricane shattered her neighborhood. Those indelible memories appear in her work "City Turned to Inland Lake."…

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Oct 10

A poet explains why ‘boys will be boys’ is the ‘stupidest’ thing you could say

By Lora Strum

A young boy pushes a girl off a swing because he likes her. “Boys will be boys,” a teacher explains. Years later, a boy drinks a bit too much and hits his girlfriend. The same words echo in the girl’s…

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Sep 24

For this poet, community, hair and self-worth are interwoven

By Corinne Segal

Raych Jackson spent countless nights of her childhood sitting on Chicago porches with her friends' hands in her hair -- feeling the intimacy of touch and the pain as they pulled tight, hearing the sounds of gossip flying around her.

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Aug 29

Remembering Tom Clark, renowned poet who rhapsodized about baseball

By Jennifer Hijazi

Prolific poet and biographer Tom Clark died this month at the age of 77, leaving behind a substantial body of writing that exemplifies his penchants for lyricism, wit, and brevity, as well as a lifelong love of baseball.

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Aug 14

‘The human capacity to carry many things at once’

By Jennifer Hijazi

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.

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