When I was appointed poet laureate of Rhode Island in 2016, I made establishing a youth representative for our state one of my first priorities. As an educator and a parent, I have long witnessed the ...
Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people as she could, asking participants to recall specific ...
Alaskan Native poet Joan Naviyuk Kane’s poems grow from one word. In the case of the poem “Compass,” that word is “Uaałukitaaqtuq,” an Inupiaq word that describes the feeling of being “in a boat, and ...
Former Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford wrote a “A Proclamation for Peace” poem several years ago. But today it has a new resonance. It’s been published in a new book, along with translations into ...
University of Illinois Press, 109 pp., $50 hardcover, $19.95 paperback Mark Strand, former poet laureate of the United States, has received countless awards. Coming nearly 45 years after his first ...
Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people as she could, asking participants to recall specific ...