Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Wilderness: Sharing and Reorientation “We Lived Happily During the War” Ilya Kamisky is a Ukrainian-American poet whose work voices the unease we feel at this moment. Though we must defend…
Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Structure Of Belonging “I wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free” Nina Simone was born Feb 21, 1933 in the small foothills town of Tryon, NC. She helped give voice to…
Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Poetry for Building Community, Reader On Liberty and Slavery” George Moses Horton was born the property of William Horton and his tobacco plantation in 1798. After teaching himself to…
Poetry for Building Community, Significance Of Place, Structure Of Belonging, Wilderness: Sharing and Reorientation “Appalachian Elegy” Among the many creatives, thinkers, and other heroic figures that have transitioned this winter is the incomparable bell hooks. hooks…
Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Structure Of Belonging Welcome When the Reader highlighted “Madam and the Rent Man” by Langston Hughes, Common Good contributor Devin Bustin was compelled to…
