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Martin Luther King

MLK
26 Jul 2023

MLK

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Memoir | 0

Celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King with pieces by Margaret Rozga and Eugenia Collier, from Passager’s special Martin Luther King issue, published in 2008.

community, food, Martin Luther King, oppression
Growing Up in Traumatic Times
26 Jul 2023

Growing Up in Traumatic Times

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Poetry | 0

A poem by 2020 Passager Poet Liz Abrams-Morley, from the 2020 Passager Poetry Contest issue.

childhood, history, Martin Luther King, military, pain, violence, War
To My Fellow Poets
2 Jul 2023

To My Fellow Poets

by Sarah Rubin | posted in: Memoir | 0

Excerpts of an essay from Baltimore poet Tillie Friedenberg, who wrote in 2008 about joining the protest movement in the 60s, published in the Martin Luther King Jr. special release issue of Passager Journal.

change, history, Martin Luther King, oppression, violence
Poems in Protest
7 Feb 2023

Poems in Protest

by Amber Campbell Wheeler | posted in: Aging, Poetry | 0

Remembering those lost to racial injustice while hoping for a brighter tomorrow, with poems by Art Cohen, Robert Nelson and Ted Lockhart.

heritage, history, loss, Martin Luther King, memory, violence

Passager News

Morgenthau winner Winifred Hughes is coming to Baltimore! Join us May 31-June 1 for a reading (alongside local poet Diane Macklin) and sign up for her ecopoetry workshop. Further details on our Events page.

“I wanted to live as boldly as my mother . . . there were places that I lived in fear, and one of them was putting my writing out in public.” Read the full article featuring Passager writers Diane Macklin, Elaine Logan and John Biggs in The Baltimore Beacon.

“I refuse to turn my life over to the disease.” Read the full interview with David Bergman, author of Plain Sight, about the unique challenges of writing with Parkinson’s.

Read “The People Who Started Again In Their 90’s,” an article from The Guardian featuring Passager poet Sarah Yerkes.

The Academy of American Poets has awarded Passager poet Moira Egan the Raiziss/ De Palachi Fellowship for her translation of Letters of Black Fire by Italian poet Giorgiomaria Cornelio.

Headstone received Massachusetts Book Awards Poetry Honors! Congratulations, Mark!

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