Location: National
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Strengthening Community, One Love Letter at a Time
March 14, 2023
Step aside, Paris: New Bedford, Massachusetts is the new city of love. Residents created a city-wide letter-writing campaign that inspired an internationally successful documentary.
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Poetry in Rural Oklahoma
June 7, 2019
Before I arrived in Locust Grove, Oklahoma, I knew this small town of less than 1,500 was rich in one particular thing: creativity. I was visiting to experience the final...
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Storytelling in Puerto Rico
February 26, 2019
Universidad Ana G. Méndez hosted an NEA Big Read featuring Julia Alvarez’s novel, In the Time of the Butterflies. Through conversations and events with the author, the community of Gurabo,...