A new novel follows the love lives of three generations of Palestinian American women

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Healing through poetry in 'Light For The World To See'

This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. In 2020, Kwame Alexander was feeling the weight of being Black in America and didn't know how to make sense of his feelings. So, he made sense of them through his book ...  Show more

In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of 'deaf gain' instead of hearing loss

This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. When Raymond Antrobus was 6 years old, he learned he was deaf. His memoir The Quiet Ear describes living in a world of in-betweenness, straddling intersections of race, ...  Show more

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