The United States Poet Laureate Emeritus reflects on libraries, wonder and discovery.
Tag: Winter 2021
Meet Cover Photographer Adam Eaton!
The Rochester-based photographer of Mason Street’s Winter 2021 cover,
Octavio Quintanilla: The Poetic Landscape of Frontextos
The artist and San Antonio Poet Laureate celebrates text, image, and marginalia crossing the boundaries between word and image
Meet Danielle Ponder
Rochester’s public defender and chanteuse extraordinaire soars through NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest and far beyond.
Before the Election
A poem by Scott Williams
A Database of Exhumed Objects to Identify those who Perished
A poem by Celeste Schantz
Space Between Skies in Athens, NY
A poem by Shannon Cuthbert
Translation
A Poem by Anastasia Vassos
The Lemons and the Magnolias
A poem by Juan Pablo Mobili
Borders Can be Borderlands
Filmmaker Mara Ahmed on borderlands as liminal, in-between, intersectional, hybrid spaces
The Family’s Button Supply
A prose poem by Charles Rafferty
Blue Sermon: Hate to Tell You
Catherine Lee on Blues great Arnett Cobb, “The Wild Man of the Tenor Sax,” and Jim Crow racism in the south.
Book Review: A Saint from Texas
G.E. Schwartz on a sprawling story of identical twin sisters from a small town, whose lives take entirely different directions
Troubadour
A poem by Kersten Christianson
Continental Drift
A poem by Julie Rochlin
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