Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...

2020 hasn't been the best for memes so far, probably because of how bad everything else is. This "the poem/the poet" meme is pretty good, though. At the very least, it's a pleasant ride through some ...

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This is the third in a five-part series about the value of verse in the 21st century. Read the first two installments here and here. My friend and fellow graduate student David, often taken to coining ...

Literary star Amanda Gorman is feeling that red-hot viral synergy. Perhaps the most 2021 barometer of the inauguration poet's windfall this week manifested in being given the Bernie Sanders meme ...