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Welcome to the place that is dedicated to getting you writing (again?). Maybe you have absolutely no idea where to start but have always...

Welcome to the place that is dedicated to getting you writing (again?). Maybe you have absolutely no idea where to start but have always...

Welcome to the place that is dedicated to getting you writing (again?). Maybe you have absolutely no idea where to start but have always...

Poet: Camonghne Felix Poet Background: Felix was born in 1992 and raised in the Bronx in New York City. She is a writer, poet, and...

Poet: Gregory Orr Poet Background: Gregory Orr is arguably one of the most accomplished American poets of the last half-century, with his...

Poet: Rachel B. Glaser Poet Background: Rachel B. Glaser is somewhat of a mystery, at least when it comes to discovering her background...

Poet: Megan Denton Ray Poet Background: Megan Denton Ray, born and raised in Tennessee, earned her MFA in poetry from Purdue University...

Poet: Derrick Austin Poet Background: Today we have a poet with a Wisconsin connection! Derrick Austin is an award-winning poet hailing...

Poet: Cortney Lamar Charleston Poet Background: Charleston, born in Harvey, IL, was raised on the South Side of Chicago and parts of the...

Poet: Major Jackson Poet Background: Jackson, an award-winning poet and essayist, was born in 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He...

We have a lot going on this week at the Brown Deer Public Library (we just opened up our *BRAND NEW* library to the public, and we’re...

Poet: Carol Muske-Dukes Background: Muske-Dukes, born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1945 and raised in Forest Lake, Minnesota, is the author...

Poet: Jill Alexander Essbaum Background: Essbaum, born and raised in Bay City, Texas, is a poet, novelist, and editor. Educated at the...

Hello, readers of the ‘Poem of the Week’ posts! Just wanted to give you all a heads up--over the course of the next three weeks, we here...

Title: How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) Author: Barbara Kingsolver Themes/Subjects: Self-Help, Travel, Inwardness, Loneliness,...

This week’s ‘Poem of the Week’ comes courtesy of one of the biggest writers of the past forty years: Canadian novelist, poet, essayist,...

This week’s ‘Poem of the Week’ comes courtesy of one of my new favorite poets, John Murillo. Murillo’s work, similar to many other poets...

Title: Un-American Author: Hafizah Geter Themes: Self-Identity, Faith, Racism, Cultural Identity, Trauma, Family, Immigration, Queerness,...

The poem for this week’s installment of ‘Poem of the Week’ comes from an author who is better known as a fiction writer—Barbara...

Title: The Malevolent Volume Author: Justin Phillip Reed Themes: Self-Identity, Queerness, Violence, Racism, Protest, Horror, Mythology,...