Becky Boling, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of Spanish and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, participated, along with 25 other local poets, in Words to Meet the Moment at the Grand Theater, on January 18. Her poem, “Against Fascism,” is included in the chapbook Words to Meet the Moment: Poetry Against Fascism (Content Bookstore, 2026). Three other poems, “Vigil,” “Burrowing,” and “Death Is Close” were part of a special exhibit and reading, When the World Shows a Wound, Poetry Shows a Light at the Historic Chateau Theater in Rochester, on February 10. Boling was one of six poets who read, “Bonanza,” as part of the Agates Independent Bookstore Tour, at Content Bookstore, on February 5. Poems: “How To Use Glue,” “One Thousand Four Hundred,” “Do Not Panic Organize…Resist Like It’s 1938,” “Pin the Tail,” “A Violent Fall,” “On Tyranny” published by Shipwreckt Press as a free Flip Book and a print version of Lost Lake Folk Opera. Special Issue: United We Write V. 10. 2025/2026. Her poem, “That Sleep of Death,” is in ICE OUT: Minnesota Writers Rising Up, edited by Ian Graham Leask (Calumet Press, 2026) and she was one of many poets who read March 1 at Eat My Words in the launch of the collection.