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Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison describes something unexpected he found after checking into a room with a fly in it.

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

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In “Freedom Braids” and “The Magic Callaloo,” young girls follow cornrowed maps to escape slavery. Sabrina Orah Mark is the ...

Harold Rhenisch has made the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for Song for the Earth and the Water.

Perdita, by sociologist Dylan Riley, is a beautiful attempt both to relive his marriage and to see the world through his late wife’s eyes ...

High Cliff State Park is like the overachiever of Wisconsin parks. It’s got limestone cliffs, Native American effigy mounds, and views of Lake Winnebago that will make you forget all about your fear ...

What does this image make you think about? Look again. What else do you notice? Before Reading the Poem: (free-write) Answer this question in your own writing: “Is there, truly, anything you would do ...