KETV Omaha

NSAA will allow student's gender identity poem

After much media attention, the Nebraska School Activities Association said it will allow a student to read his controversial poem. Michael Barth, a student in Scottsbluff, won the Class C1 poetry ...
KETV Omaha

Student allowed to give gender identity poem

WEBVTT NOW THE BREAKING NEWS IN LINCOLN: JUST MOMENTS AGO, A REVERSAL THAT WILL ALLOW AN AWARD-WINNING STUDENT TO RECITE A POEM ABOUT A LESBIAN TEACHER. MICHAEL BARTH WON A STATE SPEECH CONTEST WITH ...

Dancing Vowels Explores Identity, Connection, And Meaning Through Reflective Contemporary Poetry

Dancing Vowels Explores Identity, Connection, And Meaning Through Reflective Contemporary Poetry NEW YORK CITY, NY, ...
The Washington Post

3 poets and 3 comic artists collaborate on ‘Identity’

For National Poetry Month, we asked three poets — Diana Goetsch, Karisma Price and Sally Wen Mao — for a poem on the subject of identity. We then asked three artists — Margaret Flatley, Anjali ...
MassLive

Amherst Together asking for poems about identity, presenting 1-woman performance on notion of race

Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is bringing her one-woman show "One Drop of Love" to Amherst Middle School April 15 as part of the Amherst Together initiative. AMHERST - Since July, Carol Ross has been doing a ...
The Greeley Tribune

A ‘powerful and effective’ outlet: Windsor High School junior to take poems of identity to Poetry Out Loud National Finals

A Windsor High School junior will take his demanding stage presence to a national audience, performing poetry that speaks to his identity as a person of color. “I am the Smoke King. I am Black,” ...
Publishers Weekly

Identity Repair Poet: PW Talks with Thomas Sayers Ellis

In his second collection, Skin Inc: Identity Repair Poems, Ellis takes a complex, searing look at the state of black identity in America. Can you talk a bit about your notion of an "identity repair ...