Hillel Italie
LATEST ARTICLES BY Hillel Italie
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Labor
Librarians fear new penalties, even prison over book bans
April 9, 2024Across the country, book challenges and bans have soared to the highest levels in decades.
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Culture
Poet Amanda Gorman: ‘Even as we grieved, we grew.’
January 20, 2021It was an extraordinary task for Gorman, the youngest by far of the poets who have read at presidential inaugurations.
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Arts
Poets honor ‘migration’ paintings of Jacob Lawrence
May 8, 2015For a tribute in verse to one of the 20th century's greatest painters, the late Jacob Lawrence, only the finest poets would do.
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Arts
Actress Lauren Bacall, who protested Hollywood blacklist, dies at 89
August 14, 2014"Stardom isn't a career," Bacall once observed, "it's an accident." What a lucky accident it turned out to be.
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U.S.
Philip Levine named country’s poet laureate
August 10, 2011Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine, known for his detailed and personal verse about the working class, has been appointed the country's new poet laureate.
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