Read Your Way Around the World
Date: July 15, 2020
With travel plans cancelled for the foreseeable future, we’re all looking for new ways to feel transported from our homes, without putting our families at risk. That’s where these book […]
Date: July 15, 2020
With travel plans cancelled for the foreseeable future, we’re all looking for new ways to feel transported from our homes, without putting our families at risk. That’s where these book […]
Date: July 14, 2020
Ellen Meeropol speaks with the local North Hampton news radio on the Bill Newman Show to discuss the book launch of Her Sister’s Tattoo. Listen in for an inside scoop […]
Date: July 14, 2020
Her Sister’s Tattoo begins in the heat of August 1968, as sisters Esther and Rosa Cohen, daughters of union activists, march against the war in Vietnam. When a young man […]
Date: July 13, 2020
“My sister Ruth showed up on day four of the blackout, the day we began to suspect this wasn’t an ordinary grid failure. There had been no blizzard, no fragility […]
Date: July 13, 2020
Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels: Kinship of Clover (Women’s National Book Association Great Group Read, and literary fiction finalist for the Best Book Award), On Hurricane Island (semifinalist for the Massachusetts […]
Date: July 13, 2020
“For some time we’ve been waiting for a poet to appear who could adequately confront the vast and deliriously complex matter of the USA—its people, its art, its material and […]
Date: July 13, 2020
Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. His upcoming memoir Beyond Repair: Living in a […]
Date: July 13, 2020
Lara Ehrlich had a busy spring as director of marketing for June’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, Conn. The 250-event schedule had to be completely reimagined as a scaled-down, […]
Date: July 8, 2020
I met Kristen Millares Young at AWP’s annual writing conference earlier this year. I sidled up, thrust my advance copy of Subduction in front of her to sign, and she said, “It’s […]
Date: July 8, 2020
In this episode of Chewing The Gristle, Poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with the imaginative Keith Flynn— poet, founder and managing editor of the Asheville Poetry Review. Watch […]
Date: January 29, 2025
Eleanor J. Bader recommends The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian, describing it as “a beautiful, sad, and timely look at the aftermath of war and its lasting […]
Date: January 28, 2025
Blood Wolf Moon reflects a poet at the height of her powers, yet it remains accessible to a wide audience and will especially be valued by Osages. Readers will find […]
Date: January 22, 2025
Book critic Ron Charles recommended Kim Dower’s new collection, What She Wants, in the Washington Post Book Club and included the poem ‘Longing’ in the weekly selection.
Date: December 16, 2024
Huge thanks to book critic Dwight Garner for your thorough, generous review of Percival Everett’s poetry collections, including re:f (gesture), The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson, Sonnets for […]
Date: December 12, 2024
This episode of “Check This Out” from New Hampshire Public Radio features local librarians discussing their favorite books of 2024! This to the full episode to hear what they thought […]
Date: December 3, 2024
AS A POET AGES, he’s often faced with several choices. He can keep doing what he has always done, or he can, by seriously confronting himself, seek another voice. Jason […]
Date: November 19, 2024
“I am good with secrets,” Jackson confesses early in her subtle latest (after Moon Jar). She makes good on that statement in poems that detail the secrets of the departed, including […]
Date: October 31, 2024
In My Infinity (Red Hen Press), Didi Jackson employs a lyrical grace and intimate tone as she seeks transcendence, even while acknowledging that not all wounds may heal. She explores personal concessions […]
Date: October 31, 2024
My Infinity is a volume that puts Didi Jackson’s talent on full display. This is only her second poetry volume (the first, Moon Jar, was published in 2020), but it reads like […]
Date: October 15, 2024
Blue Atlas is an absorbing and heart-wrenching collection that revolves around the poet’s decision, thirty years back, to have an abortion rather than go full term with an unplanned pregnancy. As […]