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Overall, Thursday was a packed day for FIFA officials who visited Kansas City as they consider sites for the 2026 World Cup.

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Still from "Ballerina Boys" premiering Friday, June 4 at 9pm on KQED 9. KQED is proud to celebrate LGBTQ  Heritage Month starting in June with a special TV programming lineup. Premiere dates are listed below.  KQED 9 11pm Patient No More Queer women are not statistically "safe," but there are medical spaces that have been crafted so that they can be treated with the same dignity as any other patient. Patient No More explores the barriers LGBTQ+ women navigate across health care systems, and ...

Derek Sheffield’s collection, Not for Luck, was selected by Mark Doty for the 2019 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. His other books include Through the Second Skin, finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. When he isn’t teaching at Wenatchee Valley College or editing poetry for Terrain.org, Derek can often be found skiing, hiking, birding, botanizing, or forest bathing in the mountains of North Central Washington. w...

Brooke Matson is a poet and book artist in Spokane, Washington, where she is the executive director of Spark Central , a non-profit dedicated to igniting

Poet Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for poetry, discusses his favorite listener-submitted poems with NPR's Michel Martin.

Letters to the Editor Opinion Letters to the Editor - Texas Rangers opening day, Utah making fathers pay, the tragedy in Allen, belief in God, Easter celebrations Readers are glad Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t participate in opening day festivities, agree with the Utah law that fathers have to pay half of pregnancy costs, are shocked by the murder-suicide in Allen, liked a column about believing in God and appreciate a story on Easter celebrations. On Good Friday, Father Daniel Kelley kneels befo...

Photo courtesy of Brooke Matson. Brooke Matson is a Spokane-based poet and book artist whose latest collection, In Accelerated Silence , explores the intersections of Big Science (think astrophysics) and Big Feeling (think grief and resilience). Both philosophical and grounded in the elements and the body, these poems read like missives from a starry night, when the body feels alive and the mind contemplative. Hum by Jamaal May: Maybe because I read it on my first writing residency, May’s f...

Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor - Democracy, Ken Paxton, government regulations, leadership failure, Republican party, U.S. flag Readers say impeaching the president will allow the country to focus on the coronavirus and economy, criticize Ken Paxton for not signing the letter condemning Capitol riot, promote reducing the number of government regulations, talk about how Republicans can regain their party and urge flying the flag on Jan. 20. A chance to save the GOP Republican senato...

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