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The North Columbia Schoolhouse presents Poetic Crossings, an evening of ridge poetic tradition in conjunction with the Sierra Poetry Festival, according to a press release.

May 4, 2021 This week, we hear from one of the co-editors of the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology – yes the very first. It’s called When The Light of The World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. It was edited by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo with Jennifer Elise Foerster and LeAnne Howe.  Organized by geographical region, each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with...

Don Mee Choi. Photo: © SONG Got. Courtesy of Wave Books. It’s a cliché to say that reading transports you, but in a year in which I spent most of my days indoors, shuffling between my bedroom and my living room, the books I read really were a lifeline, a portal to an outside world. In the weeks before New York shut down, I luxuriated in my subway reading, laughing aloud at Alma Mahler’s antics in turn-of-the-century Vienna in Cate Haste’s biography Passionate Spirit, savor...