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Photo by Lura Burnette When Quraysh Ali Lansana first invited me to blog about Gwendolyn Brooks, I was elated to be allowed this opportunity to write about such an...

If you're reading from Chicago, you're most likely aware of the ways the state budget impasse has been applying pressure on and disrupting educational institutions. Foremost among those schools in...

At New Pages, a review of Jennifer Nelson's first poetry collection, Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015). Benjamin Champagne writes that the book "amalgamates the...