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How poetry can help people get through hard times – 4...

Staff Writer - March 20, 2022

Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation When Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “We Lived Happily During the...

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How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry

Staff Writer - February 23, 2022

Jason Miller, North Carolina State University In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been...

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The ancient history of adding insult to injury

Staff Writer - November 15, 2021

Andrew M. McClellan, San Diego State University At one point in the latest James Bond installment, “No Time To...

Education

Amanda Gorman’s poetry shows why spoken word belongs in school

Staff Writer - February 7, 2021

Kathleen M. Alley, Mississippi State University; Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Cornell University, and Wendy R. Williams, Arizona State University Editor’s...

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When Black kids – shut out from the whitewashed world of...

Staff Writer - February 6, 2021

Paige Gray, Savannah College of Art and Design Hanging on the wall in my office is the framed cover...

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‘Quarantine envy’ could finally wake people up to the deep inequalities...

Staff Writer - September 11, 2020

Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington University in St Louis In recent months, mental health experts have been drawing attention to what they’ve dubbed “quarantine envy.” Many people, they...

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Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time

Staff Writer - August 26, 2020

Matthew Redmond, Stanford University Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms. She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired...