The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose ...

By Michael Saponara Samara Cyn never wanted to be a rapper. Even while moving around the country as a military brat, Cyn was ...

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There’s an old idea that you campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But then there’s what that means when your head of state comes to town ...

Radha is an elusive heroine Ducking behind trees and hiding in bowers she has managed to dodge definition for longAt the same time her very elusiveness has made her ...

I am happy Ruth is getting the credit she most certainly deserves. There are so many people still around that loved her, and ...

On new volumes & editions by Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Brad Leithauser, Dorothy Parker & Claudia Emerson.

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Each year in April, the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, Vt., publishes an anthology to celebrate the work of Vermont ...

The Astor Judaica Library had some 60 people attending the May 4 Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices program featuring three published ...