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Arts Paper

As the editorially independent arm of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Arts Paper seeks to celebrate, explore, and investigate the fine, visual, performing and culinary arts in and around New Haven.

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An Early-Morning Writers' Group Enters The Fray

Samir Iydroose Photos.

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At Co-Op, An Author's Visit Lights A Cultural Spark

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Two Poets Laureate Get To Work

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At Co-Op, The School's Quietest Art Gets Loud & Lyrical

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Fueled By The Sun: How One Poet Turned Loss Into Lyricism

Sun Queen and her goddaughter, Ka'meya Ingram, at a Black History Month open mic at the Hill Museum of Arts in February 2023. Ingram's sweatshirt is part of Sun Queen's "Black Girls Are Sunshine" brand. Lucy Gellman File Photo.

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Poets Celebrate A Year Of Community On State Street

Photo courtesy Brian Ember.

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Zakiya Dalila Harris Brings "The Other Black Girl" To SCSU

Isabel Chenoweth/SCSU Photos.

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Covid-19 Claims A Vibrant Local Voice

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Co-Op Students Bring Theater To The Mailbox

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Metro Students Vision A Third Reconstruction

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Ignite The Voice Lets Youth Take The Wheel

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Library Lends Out WiFi Lifelines

Business Outreach Librarian Gina Bingham outside the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library. Lucy Gellman Photo.

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Puma Simone Enters The Multiverse

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11 Writers Mine The Moment

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ECA Students Snag National Writing Awards

Two friends sit in the front seat of a car, thick streams of rain racing the windshield. One opens her hand and then clasps it, an invitation. Water gathers around the car, fog rolls in. They are not practicing social distancing, but this is also a world where COVID-19 does not exist.

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A Writing Incubator Turns 10

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New Haven Shuts Up & Writes

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Sun Queen Pens Her Journey Through New Haven

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Co-Op Students: What Happens To Creative Writing Now?

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“Echoes Of Love” Dredges Up Decades Of Memory

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Co-Op Rallies To Keep Creative Writing

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One Year In, Local Lit Gathers Around Story

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“The Orderly” Hits Shelves, And Hearts

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In ‘States Of The Union,’ People And Politics Talk

A software engineer in Illinois, who called her parents weeping as Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. A college student in New Hampshire who wanted to hear from the other side of the political aisle. A smiling, hatted Vermin Supreme, who didn’t believe despair was the answer.

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Lotta Gets Locally Lit

A winding, narrow road in snowy Pennsylvania, with a curious inn alongside it. A psychiatric hospital in the sticky New York City Summer of 1965. A small family in Poland or Russia, scrambling to finish cooked oil-flecked, gristly angel meat before midnight.

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Co-Op  Junior Writes His Way To Bread Loaf

Lucy Gellman Photo.

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