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Ross Gay Sample GatesBloomington, Indiana By Ryan Kegley It is just past dawn, and I am standing in the middle of the Bloomington Community Orchard, the one-acre edible public park that poet, professor, gardener, and self-proclaimed joyologist Ross Gay co-founded. It...
Danez Smith & Black Youth Healing Arts Center—what it takes to create spaces for poets of color to thrive. Literary Landscapes by Chandler Peters-DuRose.
Speaking to Plebes, Morrison makes “the auditorium, alive with the resonance of storytelling,” a space of racial belonging.
Bienvenido Santos & Ablah Library—seeing ghosts in the palimpsest of Wichita State University.
Ben Lerner & Topeka High School—a teenage debate champion looks down on generations of high school students.
Mary Hunter Austin & Blackburn College—a kinship in the desire to walk about unhampered and forge meaningful connections. #LiteraryLandscapes by Karen Dillon & Naomi Crummey.
Willa Cather & the Fine Arts Building—a respite from the “blur of smoke and wind and noise” in the capital of the Middle Empire.
Earlham Hall — Leah Milne on alienation, determination, and Zitkála-Šá’s time in Richmond, Indiana.
Central Elementary—Tayler Fox on Naomi Shihab Nye and the effects of imposed divisions in Ferguson, Missouri.