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Juan Felipe Herrera: My Library Memories
The United States Poet Laureate Emeritus reflects on libraries, wonder and discovery.
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.
Two Poems
by Rethabile Masilo
Jubilee
An excerpt from Jennifer Givhan’s novel of loss and healing
Two Poems
by Danae Younge
Two Poems
by Phillip Shabazz
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
Swiping
A poem by Alex Wells Shapiro
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
Feeding
A poem by Paula Bonnell
Fountain City, Tennessee, 1964
A poem by Gale Acuff
Homeless
A poem by Michael T. Smith
Gerrit Achterberg (1905-1962)
A poem by James Thurgood
The Coastguard Cottages, Cuckmere Haven
A poem by Mantz Yorke
English as a Second Language
An essay by Cynthia Bruckman
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