1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (353+ words) The Durango Herald National Poetry Month " celebrating its 30th year " draws to a close, and with it our annual invitation to readers to share their work. They arrive in our inbox, in envelopes, in careful and quirky lines and stanzas " shared…...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago  (229+ words) It is rare to encounter a poet who does not inherit a language so much as quietly alter its center of gravity. In the work of Satish Jha, Hindi and Maithili are not merely vehicles of expression; they are sites…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (29+ words) World Book Day 2026: "Much Ado about Cooking" and other food books to read in April, the month of Shakespeare. Also, food in Austen and Amitav Ghosh's literary universe...

1+ hour, 52+ min ago  (656+ words) First edition book cover of Dashiell Hammett's comedy of manners "The Thin Man." The importance of laughter is akin to the value of books. At the Library this month, we've taken the opportunity to combine both in honor of National…...

1+ hour, 52+ min ago  (425+ words) Poets Gibson Fay-Le Blanc and Stuart Kestenbaum exchanged poems about daily life through the mail, finding connection through a slower form of communication....

16+ hour, 50+ min ago  (321+ words) Instead, Pushkin gives us sparkling, encyclopedic digressions on urban and countryside Russian life. The poet-narrator is as much a character as those outlined above, his asides and personality at times overtaking narration in feats of dexterous versification. Most famous among…...

2+ hour, 45+ min ago  (588+ words) Trapper Markelz (he/him) writes from Arlington, Massachusetts. He is the author of the chapbooks Childproof Sky (Cherry Dress, 2023) and Off To War, Daughter (Rockwood Press, 2026). His work has appeared in the journals Baltimore Review, Passengers Journal, Pine Row Press,…...

4+ hour, 52+ min ago  (149+ words) Robert Seethaler's novels have the same capacity for concisely depicting a single life as can be found in Denis Johnson's Train Dreams. Usually, Seethaler depicts figures who are part of a landscape (such as the mountains of A Whole Life),…...

5+ hour, 51+ min ago  (659+ words) This is Poems on the Underground in action. It's been like this for 40 years, and the scheme marks its anniversary this year by reminding the 3 million people that make journeys on the Tube everyday that public transport need not be…...

2+ hour, 34+ min ago  (246+ words) West Dartmoor, Devon: On the moor, every puddle and pool is quivering with whirligig beetles, carving circles and rotating in pairs A calm, clear morning on Dartmoor and the shallow pools I pass are smooth as glass " scattered wedges of…...