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Silence and speech in post-war France

A melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document

The poet Ruth Stone is known for sensing a poem thundering at her over the landscape and running like hell for home to write it down. Sometimes, she’d catch it...

Whenever a guest drops by unexpectedly, my eye goes to the pile of mail on the counter, the tumbleweeds of dog hair roaming freely across the kitchen floor from our...

Race, Class, Gender, and the Imperial Body

As a visiting teaching artist for the Poetry Foundation, I facilitated a workshop titled “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry.” We created graphic poems and also explored how visual elements...

Reading the visual in the Chicago Daily Tribune

Architecture and Planning in Chicago