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The George Floyd trial was a tipping point for me. After four years of unleashed racism, I instantly knew what my first trip, outside the isolated bubble of Covid, would have to be. I'd had plenty of time to process what I'd been witnessing from afar. The experiences weren't mine, but had touched me deeply. I knew I needed to dive into history, to explore and better understand how we had gotten to this place. I needed to come face to face with...

In this high pressure, fast paced world, it's easy to lose sight of the beauty before us. Joan Kantor's newest collection of poems, The Magic of Moments: From Mindfulness to Reflection, is about taking even the briefest moments of time to notice nature. As Kantor tells her readers, some of her most amazing experiences in nature happened in just seconds or minutes. Kantor discovers the magic of these moments in a peaceful place of mindful refle...

When there is just the thinnest thread of hope, what is it that keeps someone holding on? In Holding It Together: Surviving a Legacy of Mental Illness, award-winning poet Joan Kantor tells the story of how she did just that and, in so doing, gives others suffering from mental illness a sense of validation and hope. Kantor, who struggled with severe clinical depression and anxiety before finding the right treatment, chronicles her journey in a ...