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Brenda Cárdenas is Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate. As the state’s ambassador for poetry, the Milwaukee native hopes to inspire creativity through workshops, projects and meeting with young people.
Andrea Gibson poem quotes revisited as fans honor the beloved poet and queer activist following their passing at 49.
Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...
In “The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health,” Dr. Rheeda Walker wants to undo the stigma associated with mental health care in the Black community. The book gives readers a guide to identifying ...
We meet Arno Schilperoord, a global leader for Heineken who believes that coding is magic and poetry, offering the ...
Project blending poetry, journalism and art has former residents feeling nostalgic and outsiders planning visits to ...
Wichita poet Albert Goldbarth was included in a New Yorker anthology this year, but he doesn’t necessarily want to discuss it ...
"My grandfather wrote, 'A song ain’t nothing but a conversation you can have again and again,'" says Guthrie granddaughter ...
Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Modest layoffs produced the predictable Chicken Little cries of doom inside the State Department—as well as some Deep State poetry.
“He was an extraordinary idealist who gave his life to social change wherever it was needed,” says novelist Walt Curtis, ...