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In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...
Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...
And finally, if your child loves the beauty of poetry and wonders how to create poems, then “The One and Only Rumi” by Rabiah York, illustrated by Maneli Manouchehri (Penguin, $18.99) is a book to ...
Only months after Jo-Ann Iannotti entered a Dominican convent in her native New Jersey, the first Catholic president of the ...
Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...
Carmen Bugan’s books include a memoir, Burying the Typewriter: Childhood under the eye of the secret police (Picador) as well as several collections of poetry, including Lilies from America ...
National Poetry Month will once again go out with a ... her first full-length work of fiction. The book follows a Winnipeg-born woman with a Grenadian mother and (absent) white father who studies ...
Isobel Williams, in the introduction to her renderings of the poems, rightly observes that Catullus, who was likely the scion of successful businesspeople, has a “book-keeper’s eye.” ...
In her charming introduction to this anthology, US poet laureate Ada Limón suggests that poems and trees “let us breathe together.” This comment calls to mind priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ...