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In many ways, for me, the political and sociolinguistic risks of putting ASL on the walls of an art museum feel tempered by the power of the ekphrastic conceit.

I didn’t live through the Christmas of 1929, but growing up in Nogales, the border was always there—constant, imposing, ...

Twenty-twenty was a perfect year to do just that.” ...

Alike the bitter cup of grief, Alike the draught of bliss, Its progress leaves but moment brief For baffled lips to kiss.

has only good news for my body / and for my mind, she warms them ...

Blues as art as theme as exhibition Up on a midtown metropolis edifice Billboard façade 50 feet tall thirty feet wide: BLUE ...

He comes at whiles, the Winter through, West Wind! I would not miss His sudden tryst: the long, the new Surprises o ...

We are pleased to announce the judges of the 2025 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the 2025 James Laughlin Award. Hayan Charara, Suzanne Gardinier, and Lisa Olstein will serve as ...

Lucy Larcom was born in 1824 and grew up in Beverly, Massachusetts. She taught at Wheaton Seminary from 1854 to 1862. She is the author of A New England Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1889) and ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ When the Burning Begins ” by Patricia Smith. What do you notice about the poem?

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