Consider This with Naomi Shihab Nye
A conversation with the extraordinary poet and novelist Naomi Shihab Nye about nations and communities. What makes this nation, the United States, what it is? How do nations change over time, and what moves those changes? How do communities become what we hope them to be? How should we strive to live together in community?
Consider This with Naomi Shihab Nye
Join us in Portland on June 18 for a conversation with poet and novelist Naomi Shihab Nye.
Milwaukie Poetry Series: Ellen Waterston
Ellen Waterston, Oregon's Poet Laureate, will read from her own work. Her reading is sponsored by the Milwaukie Poetry Series will be livestreamed on the Ledding Library YouTube channel and available for viewing after the reading.
Flowering in Tar
Daniela Naomi Molnar writes about learning to be sensorially aware amid climate chaos and socioecological crisis
Poem: My Children Are the Bright Flowers
A poem by Cecelia Hagen
Poem: Luck of the Divide
A poem by Ellen Waterston, Oregon's eleventh Poet Laureate
our farm
A poem by ramona hilaria
Collection
A poem by Dawn Diez Willis
Angier, NC
A poem by Eric Tran
Healing Gila
A poem by Lawson Fusao Inada
Lines for the Dead
Melissa Madenski on honoring those we loved and lost as the whole people they were.
Shab-e-Yalda
A poem by Anis Mojgani
The Rebirth of Wonder
Tricia Gates Brown on poetry, mortality, and the love you don't see coming
Resume of Failures—2011
Kim Stafford writes about the stories of struggle, insecurity, and loss behind his accomplishments in the 2011 “Fail” issue.