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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...

Young Adult books are not my usual cup of tea. For whatever reason, I never really got into the genre when I was a teenager, or...

Title: Nothing Is Wrong And Here Is Why Author: Alexandra Petri Themes/Subjects: Satire, Politics, Socioeconomics, Race Relations,...

Title: The Awkward Black Man Author: Walter Mosley Themes/Subjects: Race, Self-Sufficiency, Science Fiction, Oddness, Familial Relations,...

Title: The Inner Coast Author: Donovan Hohn Themes/Subjects: Hoarding, Family Trauma, Family Relations, Teamwork, Ice Canoeing, Climate...

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,...

For this week’s ‘Poem of the Week’ feature, I’m turning to a poet that many people haven’t heard of, but one whose poems have struck me...

For the last ‘Poem of the Week’ feature for 2020, I decided to pick a poem from one of my new favorite poets I happened to stumble upon...

Title: Ballistics Author: Billy Collins Themes: Love, Death, Solitude, Youth, Aging, Sense of Place Three Words to Describe the Poems:...