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Poetry for the 99 Percent

Ru Freeman | Posted 05.18.2012

Ru Freeman

Many of them admitted to me that it was not easy to write a poem for a large project in which they were just one piece of the puzzle. For many, this was their first foray into writing for a Y/A audience, as well. They took enormous creative leaps.

Walmart's Foray Into Fair Trade Art: Is It Real?

Posted 12.07.2011

Despite its reputation for signaling the end of the "mom and pop" shop, Walmart may be embracing business model that has some small-scale suppliers do...

Innovations In Reading Prize Winners Announced

nationalbook.org | Posted 07.05.2011

Each year, the National Book Foundation awards a number of prizes of up to $2,500 each to individuals and institutions—or partnerships between the t...

The True Cost of Cheap Cashmere

Susan Gibbs | Posted 05.25.2011

Susan Gibbs

The Chinese have drastically brought the cost of cashmere down by grazing far too many animals on far too little land. The result? The desertification of hundreds of thousands of acres of pasture.