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Tag: Poetry

Radical Joy

When Lynne Thompson received the news in 2021 that she had been named Los Angeles poet laureate, she wondered if the email was an elaborate...

Margaret Walker’s lost book surfaces

For nearly 90 years, a groundbreaking, unpublished novel by the legendary Black Renaissance author lay quietly in the archives. Margaret Walker is perhaps best known...

Make reading part of your summer adventures

Darcie Caswell, Youth Services Coordinator at Central Rappahannock Regional Library The solstice has just passed and we have Independence Day this week. There’s no denying...

Artist of the week: Sejal Akerkar

Sejal Akerkar is a poet and writer who graduated from Sammamish High School in Bellevue in 2023. Akerkar self-published a collection of poetry titled “Walking...