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April 10, 2025
On April 8th, the Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Group featured “Bruise” from Cynthia Zarin’s Next Day as their Poem-a-Day, celebrating National Poetry Month.
April 3, 2025
Jenna Bush Hager’s April 2025 Read With Jenna pick is a tale of survival “Heartwood” is a story about a hike gone wrong.   What would you do if you were lost on the...
April 3, 2025
The National Book Foundation today announced its annual 5 Under 35 honorees, a selection of five fiction writers under the age of 35 whose debut work promises to leave a...
March 28, 2025
Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on...
March 25, 2025
(L-R) Vanessa Demircyan, Independent Scholar, Felisa Baynes-Ross, and the Prime Minister of St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Hon. Dr. Ralph Gonsalves.  Felisa Baynes-Ross...
March 17, 2025
Are We Crazy to Cross Such a Treacherous River? My wife, Kasia, and I stood at the edge of the frozen river, contemplating our own mortality. The map had promised a...
March 17, 2025
The End of the University as We Know It The rumors had been building for months: The Trump administration was coming for the universities. In the weeks after the president...