Litstack Recs| my name on his tongue & Feed
my name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby Laila Halaby’s, my name on his tongue, her first book of poetry,...
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Litstack Recs | Without: Poems & The Kaiju Preservation Society
Without: Poems, by Donald Hall It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of day or night it is,...
Litstack Recs | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous & Life On Mars
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, A Novel by Ocean Vuong “One does not ‘pass’ in America, it seems, without English.”...
Litstack Recs: Without & Ormeshadow
Without, by Donald Hall It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of day or night it is, when...
LitStack Rec: Green Thoughts & Renascence and Other Poems
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi Writing and gardening share similarities: the same dogged tending, the...
Litstack Rec: my name on his tongue & Baseball’s Great Experiment
Presenting another installment celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth: my name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby Laila Halaby's, my name on his tongue,...
Litstack Rec: Without & Feed
Without, by Donald Hall In celebration of National Poetry Month It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of...
Litstack Rec: Fruits & Vegetables, Poems & Ninefox Gambit
Fruits & Vegetables, Poems by Erica Jong In celebration of #NationalPoetryMonth Long before Fear of Flying, before Erica Jong’s now-classic...
Litstack Review: And There Was Evening And There Was Morning, by Mike Smith
And There was Evening And There Was Morning, Essays on Illness, Loss, and Love, by Mike Smith (WTAW Press) “Mourning,”...
Gimbling in the Wabe – “The Journey” by Mary Oliver
For the final Gimbling in the Wabe of this year's National Poetry Month, I am highlighting a poet who, to...
LitStack Rec: How to Grow Old Disgracefully & Life on Mars
How to Grow Old Disgracefully: An Autobiography, by Hermione Gingold If you're a fan of classic films, say, Vincente Minnelli's...
Gimbling in the Wabe – “Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was already a published poet in her teen years, but it was at age nineteen when...
Gimbling in the Wabe – “Home” by Warsan Shire
Poet and activist Warsan Shire April is National Poetry Month, and in honor of that I am stepping a bit...
Gimbling in the Wabe – Allowables by Nikki Giovanni
It's April, which has been declared National Poetry Month; a celebration of poetry created in 1996 by the Academy of...
Gimbling in the Wabe – The Importance of the Nonsensical
It's been a rough week and I've been at a loss on what to write, so I decided to look...
LitStack Rec: my name on his tongue & Hild
my name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby In the climate of inflamed rhetoric about immigrants that has predominated in...
2016 Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses & John Saturnall’s Feast
2016 Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson with Pushcart Prize editors There are best-of...
LitStack Recs: Brooklyn & 3 Sections
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin's 2009 novel, which won that year's Costa Award, is a lovely and haunting story set...
LitStack Recs: Without & Old Venus
Without Donald Hall It doesn't matter what I'm doing or what time of day or night it is, when I...
LitStack Review: The Tutor by Andrea Chapin
The Tutor Andrea Chapin Riverhead Books Release Date: February 5, 2015 ISBN 978-1-59463-254-9 Author Andrea Chapin is a brave woman. ...
LitStack Rec: Spring and All & Wonderbook
Spring and All, 1923 ed. Spring and All, William Carlos Willams In the frenzy that was my final term of...
LitStack Recs: my name on his tongue & Never Let Me Go
my name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby In her first book of poetry, published in 2012, Halaby mines issues...
Charles Wright Announced as New US Poet Laureate
On Thursday, June 12, the Library of Congress announced that Charles Wright would be this year's poet laureate. (In the...
LitStack Rec: ‘Women in Their Beds’ & ‘3 Sections’
Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault Her admirers include Richard Ford, Grace Paley and Robert Stone, but American fiction...
LitStack Rec: ‘Chicago’ and ‘To This Day’
One of the best definitions of magical realism I’ve read comes from Debra Spark. In her essay, “Curious Attractions: Magical...
The Art of Rejection According to Jeff Shotts
We all have heard the stories about great works being rejected by publishers. Many of these stories are humorous because...
