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How one local health official decided to spend COVID funds. Metro-Detroit poet discussed his latest work. Just how expensive has political petition gathering got?
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Understanding what the current dip in COVID cases means in the greater scope of the pandemic. A look into Frances Kai-Hwa Wang's new poetry collection, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids. How pursuing your dream job can foster workplace inequality.
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Marquette photographer Bugsy Sailor talks about how documenting the daily sunrise (he's at 1,000 and counting) helped him get through the pandemic. Then, a conversation with poet Jonah Mixon-Webster about the inherent contradictions in how Black Americans are expected to conduct themselves.
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The sadness, isolation, and loss of the past year and a half can be so hard to talk about, but sometimes poetry provides the exquisitely precise language we need to name our hurt.
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Today, two Michigan lawsuits challenge vaccine requirements at public universities. Writer Peter Markus talks about an abrupt pivot into poetry during his…
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The American Academy of Poets has chosen Flint’s Poet Laureate, Semaj Brown, as one of twenty-two 2021 Poet Laureate Fellows. Brown will receive $50,000…
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In his debut poetry collection Stereo(TYPE), Jonah Mixon-Webster expresses the tensions and traumas he endures as a Black man, a queer individual, and a…
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The strangeness and beauty of bodies and how we live in them is a theme that weaves itself throughout poet Petra Kuppers’ work. These are intensely…
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With the long holiday weekend ahead, many of us are thinking about grilling and sharing a meal with loved one for the first time in more than a year.…
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Today, on Stateside, an impending crisis among Michigan’s home care workforce and others in direct care. Plus, what the Supreme Court's ruling on Juvenile…