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As we approach July 4 and our nation’s annual commemoration of the Declaration of Independence, we do so in the context of historic calls for justice and acknowledgement of the truth about how our country was founded and built through the colonization of indigenous lands, the enslavement and genocide of millions, and the continuous oppression of the people.

A boycott is a voluntary act of protest that refuses purchasing or trading goods with another bus

In an essay about the relationship between poetry and music, Claudia Emerson writes, “We all know that poetry is not one thing; the spectrum from lyric to narrative in the category of ‘poem’ is vast and encompasses much; so, too, the spectrum of formal to freer verse. The same goes for song, for music itself.”

“The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.

“Let them not say:   it was not spoken, not written.
We spoke,

“Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings.
Not all things are blest, but the

“The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.

“You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”

“History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had—”

“Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.”

When considering essential movements in American poetry, no conversation would be complete withou

Surrealism emerged as the direct result of the publication of André Breton’s Le Manifeste du

The New York School of poetry began around 1960 in New York City and included poets such as 

Jazz poetry is a literary genre defined as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music—that is, poe