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04/25/2025

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04/25/2025

Five days left to send us your poetry! Check out our guidelines and submit your poems at blackbird.submittable.com/submit.

04/25/2025

Exchange Place in Providence in 1891

04/15/2025

Cherry & Webb in Providence in the 1970s

04/10/2025

During National Poetry Month, we recognize the work of Langston Hughes, poet, activist, novelist, and playwright. One of the seminal writers during the Harlem Renaissance and an early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes remains an essential figure in our community whose words continue to inspire. 🖤

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

“I, Too” by Langston Hughes © The Poetry Foundation

04/06/2025

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost

✍️From well-known poets to new voices to children's and everything in-between, celebrate National Poetry Month in April!

02/15/2025

Hodder Children’s Books, part of Hachette Children’s Group, has acquired a new reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Hansel and Gretel, by Stephen King and Maurice Sendak 👇

02/13/2025

A report released by Redfin has labeled Providence as the least affordable city for renters in the United States. The analysis looked at the difference between renters’ incomes and the income needed to afford rent.

According to the report, the median asking price for rent in Providence is $2,145 per month. To afford this an individual would need to earn approximately $86,000 annually. However, the median renter income in Providence is reported to be $50,408.

The amount needed to afford an apartment is up 12.6% ($9,600) from the $76,200 needed in 2023. Of all the 44 major metros analyzed, this was the biggest increase.

In comparison, the report lists Austin, Houston, and Dallas, Texas, as the top three most affordable cities for renters, highlighting the differences in rental markets across the country. 😮⚓️🏠

12/16/2024

The Rhode Island State House decorated for the holidays🎄🎁❄️

12/15/2024

Winter is coming! Check out our roundup of poems that will be sure to put you in a festive mood.

12/15/2024

Out this week: Paul Celan’s Letters to Gisèle, a big collection of the poet’s missives to his wife, the French artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange. 💌

The letters cover twenty years of their relationship, during and after the end of their marriage. Celan, known for his dark and difficult poems, writes letters that are at turns tender and doting, anxious and haunted, many spilling over with declarations of love for Gisèle. In these letters, Celan sometimes translates his poems into French for the benefit of his Francophone wife, creating versions of his poems that exist nowhere else, many of them quite different from their published form. On the whole, the letters give a glimpse into the mind of a significant artist, one of the most important of the 20th century. The book also includes letters from Celan to his son Eric.

12/15/2024

Westminster Street in Providence in December 1974

12/04/2024

Submissions to The Commuter are OPEN! We want to see your short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Each category will be capped at 375 submissions, so don't wait to submit! electricliterature.submittable.com

12/04/2024

Every time you read James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” the words make an impact.

We can’t wait to hear Tom Jenks and Carol Edgarian dive into his world in our inaugural Narrative Readers Club event! This personal reading of “Sonny’s Blues” provides ongoing observations of the aesthetics underlying Baldwin’s perfect short story.

Join us for a discussion with others who love Baldwin as much as you do.

📅 December 4 at 5pm PST
💻 Online
🎟️ RSVP: https://www.narrativemagazine.com/narrative-readers-club/tom-jenks-james-baldwin-sonnys-blues-carol-edgarian

12/01/2024

http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/blog-posts/keeping-oral-history-alive-diversity-in-the-application-of-oral-history?format=amp

In this post, based on Lorina Barker’s presentation, current Oral History MA student Lizzie Li discusses the diversity of oral history in real practice.

12/01/2024

Our Pushcart nominations are out in the world! We’ll announce them when the writers are notified.