Nein, A Manifesto
Nein, A Manifesto Home alone, reading Eric Jarosinski’s Nein. A Manifesto, and I’m laughing so hard that tears are running down my cheeks! I don’t
Nein, A Manifesto Home alone, reading Eric Jarosinski’s Nein. A Manifesto, and I’m laughing so hard that tears are running down my cheeks! I don’t
Blue Yodel Each year, the Yale Younger Poets prize is awarded to an American under forty who has not previously published a book of poetry.
Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry How can an Amy Clampitt poem contribute to diabetes research? How can science lend the missing puzzle piece
BROWN GIRL DREAMING, Snapshots in verse The poetry of Brown Girl Dreaming fills pages like Polaroid snapshots, described through the nostalgic lens of a child
What makes Ludie extraordinary is her life—not as it is shaped by popular success, but as it is lived. Award-winning author Cynthia Rylant weaves a
April is National Poetry Month. Once again, we appear to be a nation of “let’s not overdo it.” Just as we annually enjoin our fellow
The duo is at it again: after their colorful conquest of the United States in Poets’ Guide to America, John F. Buckley and Martin Ott
The Rural Lives of Nice Girls, Poems New and Selected Reno’s own Poet Laureate, Gailmarie Pahmeier, held an open house yesterday at Sundance Books &
Award-wining author Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming may have been published for middle and young adult readers, but this is a book for every reader,
Traveling Light is a series of Pastan’s personal reflections on life. Each poem is like a snapshot; it shows you a picture of a specific
Two strangers meet at a bar in the dead of winter: We can’t stop/erasing the ghost between our bodies, leaving//our mouths’ lost words all over/one
The vortex exists, and poetry is one place to find it. It is a phenomenon that occurs when a single image triggers a memory from
Tell me something I don’t know. It’s a good conversation starter whether you’re engaging with another person or, in this context, a poem. As I
AT EASE IN THE BORROWED WORLD Turn to the last page of At Ease in the Borrowed World and you will find an important piece
Our lives are infused with more poetry than we may think—recurring memories that unfold like refrains; the analogies we turn to as we struggle to understand
Looking for a collection of poetry is like trying to figure out what you’re hungry for. When I visited Sundance Books to kick off my
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