Minneapolis, Revisited
"They said the city was a testament to liberal pragmatism. They said that the gaunt-eyed brown children of the borderless had ruined it."
Somali Poetry Takes Minneapolis
In Minnesota, Somali youth poets are changing the game.
About Leaving (Milwaukee)
An original poem from "The Milwaukee Anthology."
Remembering Jimmy Cvetic
Pittsburgh's legendary boxing trainer, ex-police officer, and poet passed away this past weekend at the age of sixty-nine.
Appalachian Sunday
"There’s no name/for the things/we do to survive."
The Word Collector
For nearly fifty years, Ray Young Bear has been assembling poems, novels, and essays on the Meskwaki Tribal Settlement. Now, at sixty-eight, he just might be doing his best work yet.
Tracy K. Smith’s Civic Vision
The U.S. poet laureate on her new edited collection and how literature can mend a fractured civic culture.