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Led by best-selling author Lauren Groff, the Lynx Watch helps distribute books banned or challenged in the state of Florida to local readers and works with advocacy organizations to bring awareness to other threatened freedoms.

U.K.-based artist James Cook uses a typewriter to create architectural and portraiture artworks consisting of thousands of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, encouraging viewers to look beyond their first impressions.

For more than ten years, Meekling Press has been producing artist books, blending text and visual design to make unique literary-art objects with a playful punk sensibility.

A look at two new anthologies, including Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose From the Undocumented Diaspora, edited by the writer-activists of Undocupoets.

The Odesa Poetry Studio is a free program that creates space for children to gather, write poems, and share their work with one another, validating their voices and feelings as they live through ongoing war.

The Equity Directory is just one of the resources that the Literary Agents of Color initiative has developed to increase visibility of BIPOC agents and encourage new, fruitful relationships between agents and authors.

Twenty tiny books, including poetry collections, short tales, plays, and other works, were added this year to the miniature library collection in Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House to celebrate the royal dollhouse’s centennial anniversary.

The executive director of the Loft Literary Center, a literary arts nonprofit in Minneapolis, celebrates the organization’s fifty years of connecting authors with audiences and reflects on future plans.