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Jan

24

2023

Seeking Surprise: A Poet’s Pursuit of an Unresolved Life– An Original Essay by 2023 PNBA Book Award Winner Caitlin Scarano

This fall, I taught an online writing course meant to help poets put together and prepare their first poetry collections for publication. Though I’d designed the course to be about the practicalities of structuring, formatting, and submitting their manuscripts, by the third class meeting, our conversations had diverged to the role of surprise in poetry. …

Apr

5

2021

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Poet Ross Gay tasked himself with what sounds like a job for a Hallmark greeting card writer: he spent a year looking for things that gave him joy, be they people, places, or events big or small. Unlike the sentiments usually found on schmaltzy greeting cards, though, the brief prose essays that Gay has written …

Jan

21

2021

Preorder Poet Amanda Gorman’s Upcoming Books with Your Favorite Indie

National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman wowed at the Inauguration. You can preorder her upcoming books with your local independent bookstore now!

Jun

16

2020

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Watch this video recommendation by Hanna from Rediscovered Books in Boise, ID. The Poet X won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award. More praise, this time from favorite authors: “Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.” —Justina Ireland, author of Dread …

Apr

28

2020

Shann Ray

Our Lives with the Poets: How Poetry Speaks to the Pandemic

by Shann Ray Published in the Inlander March 21, 2020 Have you ever heard the voice of a loved one speaking over you with unexpected kindness? In times of stress, that voice can be almost unbearably rare. I’ve been thinking about how the 24-hour news cycle is often far from gentle, not at all concerned with …

Jun

12

2019

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous cover

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is a pretty famous poet, and this is his debut novel. It is so beautiful, exquisite, raw, and heartbreaking that you question: how is this NOT a memoir? It is set all over the place–they moved quite a bit. The main character, Little Dog, is writing this book as a letter to his …

Apr

19

2019

journal and poetry books for inspiration

On Writing Poetry

From the Island Books newsletter April 17, 2019 I’ve been writing poetry, or something resembling that, consistently since I was eleven years old. I’ve always liked words, the energy, the power, and the meanings that all vary. Unlike prose writing, poetry offers up a canvas of possibility in its negative space. I found I was …

Aug

8

2013

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Attention Poets…

Did you know that Port Townsend’s Copper Canyon Press is open for poetry manuscript submissions through August 31? The non-profit publisher dedicated to poetry has a reading period every summer, and 2013’s window for submissions closes at the end of this month. Poets with a book-length poetry manuscript that you would like them to read …

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