Jefferson’s paradox: How one of the largest slaveholders penned the words “All men are created equal”

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied the inequalities of enslavement.

Ginnie Graham: Poems from incarcerated women explain much of their lives

Olympia Jones, living in the Turley Correctional Center, is among the featured writers in the Poetic Justice anthology of ...
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Bicentennial poem recalls a Wilde visit to opera house

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the ...

For a Literary Saint, Margaret Atwood Can Sure Hold a Grudge

She had to be pushed to write her new memoir, “Book of Lives.” The result reveals the experiences (and a few slights) that have shaped her work.

An iconic San Francisco music venue just reopened ... kind of

Shakespeare once wrote that a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. But when it comes to punk rock, John Simon ...
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Pink Floyd commemorated in new poem from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Pink Floyd have revealed a video of a brand new poem commemorating the band by the UK's Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage. The ...
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Poet Cecily Parks' new book 'The Seeds' was a decade in the making

Cecily Parks started writing the poems that would become The Seeds about a decade ago. Now it's finally finished and out in ...