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."
"They said the city was a testament to liberal pragmatism. They said that the gaunt-eyed brown children of the borderless had ruined it."
In Minnesota, Somali youth poets are changing the game.
An original poem from "The Milwaukee Anthology."
Pittsburgh's legendary boxing trainer, ex-police officer, and poet passed away this past weekend at the age of sixty-nine.
"There’s no name/for the things/we do to survive."
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.
The U.S. poet laureate on her new edited collection and how literature can mend a fractured civic culture.