New Mexico State Fair ribbon quilt now on display in Smithsonian
Ribbons are a big deal. Carol Johnson has won hundreds and hundreds of them over the past 43 years. “My father was an alcoholic and I heard all the time,…
Q&A: Youth Poet Laureate Daniel Umemezie
Daniel Umemezie is only beginning his undergraduate education at Iowa State University, where he plans to study aerospace engineering, but he takes with him a wealth of experience as a…
The Written Image: The In Gratitude Initiative
Inspired by Ross Gay and his poetry collection Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), Just Buffalo Literary Center embarked on a six-month project this year to explore…
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1,…
Small Press Points: Lost Kite Editions
“what becomes possible when writers directly impacted by incarceration are treated not as subjects or symbols, but as serious literary thinkers—with the taste, judgment, and vision to help decide what…
Redefining Canon From the Outside
“I’d like readers to think of the canon less as a monument and more as a conversation.” “Does this book complicate or enrich the story we think we know about…
Poetry and Public Lands
A poem can seem so small, so minor, so invisible, especially when up against the daily crises and catastrophes that our planet is facing,” writes Ada Limón, the former U.S.…
What the Art World Doesn’t Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama
It’s worth considering that perhaps Kanye, and also Kusama, might somehow be off-limits from criticism because of their well-publicized mental illnesses. It’s certainly been enough to have put an asterisk…
Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic dies
Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide in the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, has died aged 84 in the United Nations detention centre…
2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania, marking state’s first deaths in 35 years
Last year's total of 2,289 was previously the highest number of recorded measles cases in more than 30 years, CDC data shows. However, the 2,777 total now marks the highest…