Join us for an online reading & conversation in celebration of *Essential Queer Voices in U.S. Poetry* this Sunday (April 14th at 4pm EST). Proud to be included in this anthology! Green Linden Press Ellen Bass Lee Ann Roripaugh Charif Shanahan ➡️thepoetscorner.org/events/essenti…⬅️

Public schools have been the place where people have come together for common cause: the education of our children. What Laura Pappano saw happening was that the far right and Moms For Liberty saw this as a political opportunity. Anne Helen Petersen buff.ly/3UaGbbz

💗💗💗 So could we!

The Comstock Act from the 1870s criminalized the mailing of contraceptives and abortion medication. Its revival in the SCOTUS #MifepristoneCase appeals to the strain of Christian nationalism we’re seeing now. #AbortionAccess Frederick Lane 🇺🇸🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 buff.ly/3J7Sq2g

This!

Always a pleasure!😁

The Sonora variety of heirloom wheat that Jaclyn Moyer grew on her organic farm turned out to be the same wheat used to make rotis. It was the bridge to repairing her fractured relationship with her Punjabi heritage. KATU News buff.ly/3PQemD4

Thanks, ALA_Booklist! I'm so glad folks are reading Don't Wait (publishing June 4, order it wherever you buy books!) and recognizing that Nalleli Cobo, Kahlila Williams and Sonia are fantastic models for how to engage in community activism

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Until the 1970s, the US had no worker safety law. The bladder cancer cluster at the Goodyear plant in Niagara Falls came to light thanks to the union and worker lawsuits that started after the creation of OSHA. Jim Morris Public Health Watch buff.ly/43MDujA

.American Library Association released its report, State of America’s Libraries 2024, which includes the 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023. The list includes Penguin Random House titles The Bluest Eye, Let’s Talk About It, and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Read more:
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It’s 💥COVER REVEAL💥 Friday for Sonali Kohli 🙆🏾’s DON’T WAIT!

Her book follows 3 young women activists of color fighting for today’s most pressing movements of defunding the police, environmental justice & arts education.

Watch this space in June! 👀

Cover design: Louis Roe

“We’re Responsible for This”: American Surgeons Return from Gaza, Call for End of U.S. Culpability in Genocide bit.ly/3UdIuL0

.Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow reached out to Amy Miller Caldwell about Atef Abu saif’s collection of diary entries on the genocide in Gaza. She and Perpetua Charles tell Christian A. Coleman about making his book available in the US. #FreePalestine 🍉 buff.ly/43TYLYQ

If you're visiting Organization of American Historians #OAH24 stop by and visit
Beacon Press at booth 303! All books 50% off!

If you’re looking for an intimate poetry collection that reflects on humanity, home, family, identity, and healing, listen to Richard Blanco’s HOMELAND OF MY BODY! AudioFile Magazine #NationalPoetryMonth buff.ly/4atgWXn

NEW on #TakeActionForLibraries Day: ALA launches #ReaderVoterReady campaign to encourage all library advocates and their communities to get informed, get registered, and get ready to vote!

Learn more & make a commitment to vote: ala.org/advocacy/reade…

For Michael Torres, a lot of the tension in his poems stems from the speaker’s desire to simultaneously stay true to a macho masculinity while also presenting and maintaining tenderness. #NationalPoetryMonth buff.ly/3lplzbu

Following the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President Lyndon Johnson urged the passage of the Civil Rights Act as a memorial to the civil rights leader. #OnThisDay in 1968, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law. #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory

“Public schools are a gift from the community to the next generation. That is being poisoned by the injection of a political agenda and a power agenda.”—Laura Pappano on Have You Heard buff.ly/3TBHIGn

In just the last few days, several authors have withdrawn their books from PEN awards consideration.
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