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Series editor’s note: Kwame Dawes’s poem is a powerful piece to start off the Black Voices series, and one that fits perfectly into the outrage of the most re…
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- Photo by Mahtem Shiferraw In the aftermath of the senseless deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, and many others before them, it is difficult to think we can still cont…
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Photo of Stephanie Pacheco courtesy of The Village TripOn April 20, 2024, Stephanie Pacheco was named the 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate, the…
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