It is with great honor that we announce that the following pieces have been nominated for Best of the Net, an online collection of the best pieces on the internet… Poetry .chisaraokwu. When God Sat In Enugu, We Wondered Who We Were Danielle Wolffe Hair Care as an Act...
It is with great honor that we announce that the following pieces have been nominated for Best of the Net, an online collection of the best pieces on the internet… Fiction House of Fraser by Mahnaz Yousefzadeh Non-Fiction Wake up, this is history by Carlo Rey Lacsamana Poetry...
This article was originally posted in its entirety onto The Michigan Daily. As part of the “Toward an Anti-Ableist Academy” conference hosted by the University of Michigan’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion this month, a panel of five faculty members from the UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS) met virtually on Tuesday to...
This excerpt from The Radiant Lives of Animals was originally published on YesMagazine.org. An Indigenous writer describes how ritual is the entryway to connection and wholeness. In The Radiant Lives of Animals, celebrated Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan draws on ancient stories and traditions to consider the connection among human consciousness, the natural...
This poem was originally published in MomEggReview. Ann Fisher-Wirth Lebkuchen There is more and more I tell no one Jane Hirshfield Once a week, my mother brought me home to make Lebkuchen, my passion all that fall because it would ripen while I was gone and because it saved talking. I...
This article was originally published in usask.ca. Louise Halfe is a BEI Emeritus Fellow. Elder and USask Indigenous advisor receives appointment as Parliamentary Poet Laureate Elder Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer, a highly-renowned University of Saskatchewan (USask) advisor, mentor, writer and honorary degree recipient, has been appointed as Canada’s...
This news was originally published on InsideUCR. UCR author Allison Hedge Coke has been inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters, or TIL. Founded in 1936 to celebrate Texas literature and recognize distinctive literary achievement, this is the 85th year members of the TIL have inducted new members to join the...
Information for this event was originally published by the Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild. Come watch the live event featuring Emeritus Fellow Louise Halfe! Let’s Chat – with Maria Campbell & Louise Bernice Halfe START: JANUARY 28, 2021 – 7:00 PM TO: 9:00 PM Please join Carol GoldenEagle as she chats with Maria Campbell...
This post was originally featured on PennStateNews. ALTOONA, Pa. — Todd Davis, professor of environmental studies and English at Penn State Altoona, has released the 15th installment of his “Notes from the Allegheny Front” audio blog. The latest installment is titled “People who Change Our Lives.” Listen to the latest...
Metta Sama’s poem, You Can’t Say Anything Anymore was recently featured in KorePress.org‘s Postcards to the Future Collection. Sama creates a powerful poem solely using common problematic remarks. #WhyWeCan’tHaveNiceThings I am terribly aggrieved about Atticus Finch being outed as a racist. I’d rather remember the good he did. Team...
The following poem by Drea Brown has been nominated by About Place Journal for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. at times it seems black life matters in death, and we die hard. this ain’t no lie. sometimes we see it coming, sometimes we go to sleep and never wake. then...
The following prose by Lisa Allen- Agostini has been nominated by About Place Journal for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. Cam couldn’t stop thinking of the girl’s perfect mouth. Perfect brown lips. When she laughed: the tender, moist, pink interior. Her straight, wide teeth like Altoids or really big Fresh’Ms....
The following poem by Marjory Wentworth has been nominated by About Place Journal for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. Whether it is morning And sunlight is seeping through Overlapping oak branches Bursting with bright leaves Or late in the day, after Rain has fallen and the scent Of spring...
The following poem by Sydney Epps has received a nomination for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. Is it a sin in this skin? No; it is a blessing See, the best teacher I had was this wrap Gifting a knowledge more potent than college A test that got y’all...