The One Book That Explains Our Current Era Was Written 40 Years Ago
Typically the work of a professor with an aptitude for speaking to a general readership, this sort of book hits just as ...
'Push the boundaries': Literacy advocate Zell Miller III is Austin's first poet laureate
For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...
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The Concrete Poetics of Mary Ellen Solt
Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...
S.F.’s Poet Laureate awarded $175,000 as part of prestigious literary prize
San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin has been awarded Yale University’s prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. The $175,000 literary award aims to provide writers the financial means to focus ...
Australia’s ‘wild reciters’ sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today’s provocateurs?
In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...
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Black women’s suffrage: A history of activism and resilience
Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.
The Lost Great American Musical Returns, Over 75 Years Later
Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s pioneering “Love Life” was thwarted by circumstance. Now, it is coming to Encores! at New ...
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Stephen Kessler | A poet born without a mother tongue
Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...
David Lynch Was Transcendental Meditation’s Greatest Ambassador. What Happens to the Movement Now?
No one since the Beatles has done more to raise TM's pop-cultural profile than the director, who died in January and leaves ...