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Kelly Crabtree passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the The Ada News on 2024-02-20.

To prevent a defeat of their struggle, striking Rutgers workers must break free from the stranglehold of the union bureaucracies and the Democrats and build independent rank-and-file committees to deepen and broaden their fight.

The Black Bibliography Project aims to revive and transform descriptive bibliography for African American and Black Diaspora literary studies.

This Week in Uses of American Poetry in Public Last month, we wrote about Amanda Gorman’s poetry performance at the presidential inauguration. This month, earnest uses of American poetry in public continued to amaze. On Sunday, February 7th, a month after the insurrection at the capitol and two days before the beginning of the impeachment trial, some of America watched the Superbowl. The 2021 Superbowl began with a blessing of sorts in the form of Amanda Gorman performing, via video, another original poem, “The Chorus of the Captains.” We would have written this whole post about Gorman�...

When Emily Dickinson died, nearly two thousand poems were found sewn in booklets called fascicles, written out as fair copies. These manuscripts were done; there were no mistakes or corrections. But also, many poems included a little plus-sign at the end of a word, or line, or whole stanza, and at the bottom of the page, she offered another word, or line, or stanza to read in its place. Similarly, many of us have our own variations on Emily Dickinson. Just over one year ago (“Since then — ‘tis Centuries —and yet/Feels shorter than the Day”), the first season of Dickinson dropped. Di...