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Poet and author Stephen Kuusisto has been legally blind since birth. He was raised to act sighted growing up. And that worked fine until he was 38 and鈥�

Clevelander Dave Lucas was named the second Ohio Poet Laureate suceeding Dr. Amit Majmudar for a two year term. Best known for his monthly Brews + Proseseries at Market Garden Brewery, Lucas wants folks in the Buckeye state to change their reactions to reading poems. "I grew up as I think a lot of people did, certainly many of my students feel this way, that poetry was what we encountered in the books that we had to read in school and that made us often feel stupid or inadequate," Lucas said.

How does someone become Ohio鈥檚 poet laureate? 鈥淥ne is anointed by the gods,鈥� quips Ohio鈥檚 newest poet laureate, Dave Lucas. At the beginning of the year...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet says she plans to use her new role to meet people who don't read poetry ... yet, anyway. She believes poetry can be a resource for people in fraught or isolating times.

Oscar Wilde once said 鈥渁ll bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.鈥� If true, then the poem Mozart wrote for his sister on her thirty-second birthday was鈥�

It is a poignant reality that innocence once lost can never be regained. But the innocence of childhood can always be enjoyed vicariously in the laughter鈥�

Imagine a world devastated by war but renewed by the invincible power of nature. That鈥檚 what poet Sara Teasdale imagined in the immediate aftermath of鈥�

When the award-winning flutist and composer Katherine Hoover starts writing a new piece of music, she鈥檚 never sure where it鈥檚 going to go. And she鈥檚 okay鈥�

A conversation with acclaimed poet, writer, educator, and activist Nikki Giovanni.

Women芒聙聶s stories of trauma and political activism from the civil war in Liberia (1989 芒聙聯 1996); and the power of poetry to connect us and express鈥�