Josselyn Wolf (left) and Angel Cruz (right).
Two Providence Students Selected as 2026 Rhode Island Youth Poetry Ambassadors
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Every year since 2018, former Rhode Island Poet Laureate Tina Cane has collaborated with the Rhode Island Center for the Book to select a Youth Poetry Ambassador from among the state’s high schools. In addition to winning a cash prize, youth poetry ambassadors have their [...]

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Apr
In Twice Born, Hester Kaplan Merges Biography and Memoir to Understand Her Elusive Father
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The opening entry in the magisterial compendium begun in 1855 and now known as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an excerpt from “The Song of the Harper,” a poem found in the tomb of the Egyptian king Intef. Dating to around 2600 BCE, the poem speaks [...]

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Apr