Words Lead News Today

Calgary has a new poet laureate. Its Wakefield Brewster, a longtime fixture on the local poetry and spoken word scene.

One Year Later: Wonderful/Wretched Memories of Racial Dynamics in the Twin Cities, Minnesota The Society Pages reposts Walt Jacob’s introduction to the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area. Wonderful/Wretched has since been revised and expanded in a published volume, Sparked’s publication, and in reflection of the year that has passed since the...