Book Review – Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhall
Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod is Traci Brimhall’s new collection, about 2/3 poems and 1/3 difficult to classify (prosetry? creative nonfiction?). The …
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Book Review – Summer Snow by Robert Hass
Summer Snow is a collection of new poems (his first in ten years) by Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass. Hass has …
Continue ReadingBook Review – followers, by Megan Angelo
followers by Megan Angelo is a debut novel of speculative fiction with two stories that merge at the end. Orla, in 2016 New York City, …
Continue ReadingBook Review – Normal People, by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally Rooney, long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, follows two protagonists, Marianne and Connell, beginning in their last year of high …
Continue ReadingBook Review – 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
1919 is the title of Eve L. Ewing’s collection of poems and the year of the Chicago Race Riots. Most of the poems begin with …
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There are free word cloud generators you can google. Copy and paste your manuscript, short story, love letter, spiritual text, boring work document, whatever, and …
Continue ReadingWomen’s Equality Day
August 26 is Women’s Equality Day commemorating the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote adopted in 1920 (can you believe it?) Here’s a …
Continue ReadingBook Review – The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns, translated by Matty Weingast
The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns is a translation by Matty Weingast of the Therigatha (Verses of the elder Nuns), poems …
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