Join us in congratulating BEI fellow Mita Mahato on publishing “Arctic Play” (published by The 3rd Thing Press, October 2024) Jasmine Elizabeth Smith (also a...

Read Black Earth Emeritus Fellow Brenda Peterson’s interesting and eerie tie to Hurricane Milton. Reversing and raising awareness of the climate crisis and the future...

Austin Smith, a Black Earth Emeritus Fellow, is a member of the Jones Lecturers at Stanford University. We have highlighted the “Dear Stanford Letters,” a...

Listen to BEI fellow Marjory Wentworth’s conversation about her time as the Poet Laureate of South Carolina, Gov. Niki Haley, living in Springfield, Ohio, and...

TELLING IMMIGRANT STORIES BECAUSE HATEFUL RHETORIC HAS CONSEQUENCES The BEI stands with those who are treated as political pawns in a game of hate and...