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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
