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For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...

For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...

For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...

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...

For those of you that haven't or couldn't attend book club lately, we'll be publishing the previous months' discussion questions here. I...

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...

For this week’s poem of the week, I chose a poem from a collection released this year by an up-and-coming poet by the name of Hafizah...

Short Review: How To Make a Slave and Other Essays, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and the first essay collection by writer Jerald...

This week’s ‘Poem of the Week’ comes courtesy of Reginald Dwayne Betts, an up-and-coming poet whose most recent collection, Felon, sent...

This week’s ‘Poem of the Week’ comes courtesy of a rising star in the poetry world, a poet, performer, educator, and activist named Roya...