that isn’t even gone yet. That no one believes you’re from. These are the words of Terisa Siagatonu in her poem ‘Atlas‘. Terisa’s poetry emerges from climate change and its impact on marginalized ...

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The personal voice of Jack Myers (1941-2009) evokes tremendous life force in the conundrums of dying he contemplated in this final book. “After I am gone and the ache begins/to cease,” opens the title ...

One of poetry’s most important tools is sensory imagery, and the following poem by Christie Towers of Massachusetts brings in pleasurable smells, tastes and sounds to evoke a rich experience starting ...

To snatch a moment from the wild and capture it in words that pulse with life is quite a feat. Stephen Grace, author of the 2004 novel Under Cottonwoods, makes it seem effortless. When he describes ...

In this episode, an award-winning poet discusses editing a book of poems by an award-winning poet—“How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton”, edited by Aracelis Girmay, is a literary ...

YOU DON’T MISS THE WATER. Words by Cornelius Eady. Music by Diedre L. Murray. With Andrea Frierson-Toney, Mike Hodge, Robert Jason Jackson and Brenda Pressley. Set and costumes by G. W. Mercier.

This week’s poem, Mary Tracy’s “Legacy,” considers our afterlives in the long span of deep time and larger natural cycles. I ...

At a low point in the summer of 2013, Flint student Razjea Bridges turned to poetry. “I kind of shut out everybody all throughout that year. Poetry was kind of the one thing that I relied on to make ...