The Brown Bag series is interdisciplinary ... employs quotation marks unconventionally. For example, Notley’s book-length contemporary epic poem “The Descent of Alette” opens with the ...

Soon after George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020, Jericho Brown's ... with a trash bag. "I wrote the poem, quite honestly ...