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Julie Danho's first full-length poetry collection, Those Who Keep Arriving (2020), won the Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 ...
Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...
Festive Arabic music filled Hahn Plaza as students gathered around dancers and drummers donning traditional garments to celebrate Arab American Heritage Month on Monday afternoon. Along with a ...
Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...
McLane was a National Book Award finalist for her collection “This Blue,” her work merges past and present, drawing on ...
Nearly 350 visiting secondary students and 33 teachers representing 13 junior high and high schools from across the state ...
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...
While Nowruz marks the renewal of life and the rebirth of nature, poetry has long been a profound vessel for expressing these very themes—growth, transformation, and the passage of time. This year, ...
When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...