BlogProducer’s Pick: Dreams and Shadows
By Lauren Francis There are a lot of moving parts behind every episode of With Good Reason — especially when our guests are co-producing their stories with us. Since the pandemic, we’ve …
BlogProducer’s Pick: Celebrating Nikki Giovanni
By Matt Darroch I’ve always kind of been a casual admirer of Nikki Giovanni and her poetry. I knew she was bold — never afraid to speak truth to power …
BlogFurious Flower IV: The Worlds of Black Poetry
Let’s just say it: these are tough times. What are we supposed to do with all these hard and complicated feelings? Turn to poetry, of course. Virginia Humanities’ With Good …
United We Stand
These three episodes of stories explore the power and impact of American immigrant writers, including works from a Dream Project writing workshop with college students and other emerging authors.
BlogPortraits of American Poetry
This past May, the world celebrated the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman. He remains one of the great American poets, a brilliant figure in the American imagination that he came, …
BlogRace and Identity Picture Book Syllabus
As part of our coverage of the Kellogg Teacher Summer Institute, guest Rachel Caldwell shared her list of picture books about race and identity. Caldwell teaches fourth grade at Burnley-Moran …
BlogWGR’s Summer Book List
Here’s the full list of book recommendations from our summer reading episode. If you pick one of them up, let us know what you think!
BlogMemoir & Motherhood
How women writers are tackling America’s most controversial subject in their own lives.
BlogReading List: Kiki Petrosino
“[It’s overwhelming] to be brought into people’s most intimate moments — their deaths — without knowing them, without any practical means to help.”
