Pain and Beauty in This Year’s Poetry Reading: Full Circle

2022-11-17T11:56:56-05:00

Poetry is a place into which we can disappear from pain. In these collections, there are many other themes explored, but these passages intertwined like threads through my reading. In “A Toothless Crackhead Was the Mascot” from Reginald Dwayne Betts’ Bastards of the Reagan Era (2015): “This begins the concept

Pain and Beauty in This Year’s Poetry Reading: Full Circle2022-11-17T11:56:56-05:00

Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2021, Week Two #MARM

2021-11-08T13:57:06-05:00

Last week, I wrote about learning that Margaret Atwood has been a long-time supporter and admirer of Thomas King’s writing, a writer I’ve enjoyed reading for a couple of decades. And I teased that this week I’d be writing about someone whose books likely wouldn’t have landed in my

Margaret Atwood Reading Month 2021, Week Two #MARM2021-11-08T13:57:06-05:00

The Writing Life: Langston Hughes (3 of 4)

2021-09-10T16:52:14-04:00

Earlier this year, my Langston Hughes (1902-1967) reading (Part One, Part Two) was focussed more on his own writing. From his short stories to the first volume of his autobiography. But along the way, I’ve enjoyed a number of other books by and about him. “I should get Langston

The Writing Life: Langston Hughes (3 of 4)2021-09-10T16:52:14-04:00

Quarterly Stories: Summer 2021

2021-07-01T12:36:45-04:00

Alexie, Dunning, Piatote and an Anthology Short Stories in April, May and June Whether in a dedicated collection or a magazine, these stories capture a variety of reading moods. This quarter, I returned to a must-read everything author and explored two new-to-me story writers.

Quarterly Stories: Summer 20212021-07-01T12:36:45-04:00

Samar Yazbek’s A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution (2012) #ReadtheChange

2020-04-13T16:24:43-04:00

Some days I picked up Samar Yazbek’s A Woman in the Crossfire, to read only two pages, and set it aside. Other days I picked it up and forced myself to read a certain number of sections (being that it’s a diary). Afterwards, whether a couple of pages or

Samar Yazbek’s A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution (2012) #ReadtheChange2020-04-13T16:24:43-04:00
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