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A 20th century Chilean poet who wanted her daughter to be more than just a princess is the inspiration for a dance performance on stage in St. Louis this…
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Two official St. Louis poets don’t always agree on what’s appropriate but they do concur on at least one thing: If you want change, you've got to work for…
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“I realized fairly recently that I have to write. I am a poet and I claim that and it is a necessity. The same way I breathe, the same way I blink, it…
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“I think of St. Louis as a place in which people are right next to each other and trying not to see each other at the same time,” said writer and poet…
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A St. Louis-area poet is lending her voice to the small but growing movement of activists calling for protests that disrupt U.S. society to spur social…
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As a child in Meridian, Miss., Treasure Shields Redmond donned special shoes nearly every Sunday — a black patent leather pair that skipped after her…
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“Play All Trap Music/That's What We Want/Let it wash ya brain/All We Do Is Stunt.”In the first stanza of a new poem, multimedia artist DarianWigfall…
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April is National Poetry Month and before we flip the calendar page, St. Louis on the Air wants to celebrate two local organizations working to make sure…
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This year’s Sundance Film Festival premiered a documentary about someone St. Louisans know and love: the incomparable Maya Angelou. The film is titled…
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Poet and spoken word artist Cheeraz Gormon has felt great pain.She grew up in the north St. Louis neighborhood of College Hill and remembers what it was…