What Makes a Poem Work?

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Hadara Bar-Nadav, Kathryn Nuernberger, Angela Elam
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Ike and McCarthy

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David A. Nichols
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Navigating a Life: Henry Bloch in World War II

Henry Bloch
Henry W. Bloch, John Herron
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A Conversation with Michelle Boisseau

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Michelle Boisseau, Angela Elam
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

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Tom Clavin
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An Evening With Francine Prose

Francine Prose
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Sound Off: The Kansas City Star's New Editorial Board

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Colleen McCain Nelson, Derek Donovan, Dave Helling, Melinda Henneberger, Steve Kraske, Lee Judge, Mary Sanchez
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Working Together: KC History Through the Kansas City Athenaeum

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Joyce Merrill
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‘To Make a Poet Black, and Bid Him Sing’

Glenn North
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White Rage

Carol Anderson
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The Mothers

Brit Bennett
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Dust Bowl Girls

Lydia Reeder
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Theater of War

Matt Gallagher, Whitney Terrell
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Ferguson's Fortune 500 Company: Structural Racism in Missouri's Most Notorious City

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Walter Johnson
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Middle Ground: The Role of Moderates in American Politics

David S. Brown
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Resetting the Supreme Court

Jeffrey Rosen
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The Revenge of Analog

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David Sax
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Defining Justice: Between the World and Me

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Shawn Alexander
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Television: A Biography

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David Thomson
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Kansas City: A Food Biography

Andrea Broomfield
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The New Kansas Cookbook: Rural Roots, Modern Table

Frank and Jayni Carey
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The Nature of Change

Gary Ferguson
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Shall We Wake the President?

Tevi Troy
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Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation

James W. Endersby, William Horner
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