When you hear "poet", what kind of person comes to mind? Emily Dickinson in her white dress? Robert Frost in the snowy woods, with his horse? Or contemporary poets like Rita Dove or Richard Blanco? They're all part of the canon – major poets with established reputations. But...
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A hundred years ago, the poet Carl Sandburg turned Chicago into an American icon. He called it "The city of broad shoulders" a gritty Midwestern metropolis, teeming with hard working immigrants. Composer David Nagler celebrated the 100th anniversary of Carl Sandburg’s famous Chicago poems by...
Quan Barry is an award-winning poet and novelist who founded the website ASPHODEL.INFO, which is dedicated to publishing a new poem each week in response to current events.
Anger can separate us into partisan camps, but it can also inspire people to work together to achieve amazing things. Michael Eric Dyson knows this firsthand.
Could we, as a nation, be addicted to anger? That’s what science fiction writer and astrophysicist David Brin thinks. In fact, he wrote an open letter to addiction researchers and psychologists, asking them to investigate America’s epidemic of self-righteous indignation.
Cleve Jones was a young activist and Harvey Milk’s protege, the man who would later create the AIDS Memorial Quilt. What he remembers about that time is how the gay community channeled anger and grief into a night he’ll never forget.
Writer Pankaj Mishra traces the roots of contemporary political rage back to a surprising source: the 18th century Enlightenment.
Psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett runs a lab where she studies emotions and says that if you pay attention, everyday anger can be a source of wisdom.
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