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A literary blog about poetry and related news

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  • Foundation News
    August 28, 2023

    Dr. Randall Horton believes in poetry’s ability to transform lives. While incarcerated, he discovered the poem “Skinhead” by Patricia Smith. He credits his experience reading that poem with opening a...

    Devin Brajha Waldman, Dr. Randall Horton, and Writers Without Margins sitting in front of recording equipment, like a computer monitor, keyboard, and large speakers, facing the camera.
  • Foundation News
    August 15, 2023

    In 2016, poets Sheila Black and Kathi Wolfe had a conversation discussing the barriers faced by poets with disabilities. Kathi questioned why there couldn’t be a non-profit focused specifically on...

    Collage featuring (clockwise) Liv Mammone (Fellow), Leslie McIntosh (Fellow), Kay Ulanday Barrett (Faculty), Maurice Moore (Fellow), Ricky Ray (Fellow), Alayna Powell (Fellow), Kimberly Jae (Fellow), Meg Day (Faculty), and the Zoegossia logo (a yellow squ
  • Foundation News
    July 31, 2023

    When Francisco Aragón joined the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) in 2003, there was no literary component. To address the gap, he established the Andrés Montoya...

    This image features the poets at the Afro-Latinx Poetry Now gathering In September, 2022, whose writing will be featured in the post-gathering folio at Chiricú Journal. Six poets are sitting casually on a couch and smiling.
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