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Poetry is a powerful tool for rewiring ourselves, research suggests
53+ min ago (623+ words) April is National Poetry Month. Andru Defeye performs a poetry reading on stage at Harlow's in Sacramento. Andru Defeye served as Sacramento's poet laureate from 2020-2024 and is the driving force behind Sacramento Poetry Week. In this new regular feature, "The…...
Ellen Burstyn's Inner Library
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (837+ words) Kris Kristofferson told her he was a poet when they co-starred in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore." Her new book tells the story of her life in poetry, Michael Schulman writes. She wore green slacks, a green turtleneck, and a…...
Tompkins Square," by Anthony Walton
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (245+ words) Poetry by Anthony Walton: "It was an evening they had planned, privately, in the sequester / of their thoughts for years before it could or should have / happened." It was an evening they had planned, privately, in the sequester of their…...
Day 27 - Today's National Poetry Month selections
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (256+ words) Posted By: David Fortier April 27, 2026 Once again, April is National Poetry Month, so TBE is including links to poems for those who might be inclined to start their day with an adventure of sorts or who are simply curious. There…...
Franciscan Moment Podcast: Poet Scott Mc Connaha with Franciscan Sisters
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (254+ words) April is National poetry month. Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity Sister Laura Wolf and Sister Elena Gonzales collaborate on this Franciscan Moment Podcast with an interview with poet Scott Mc Connaha. A former teacher, editor, and healthcare administrator, He and…...
This Week in Literary History: Edna St. Vincent Millay Loses Her Manuscript in a Hotel Fire
3+ hour, 43+ min ago (119+ words) It was a major tragedy," Eugen wrote to Norma, Millay's sister. She also lost a seventeenth-century copy of Catullus, which she said, according to biographer Nancy Mitford, was the only thing that touched me emotionally, the only thing I mourned…...
Reading: Phillip B. Williams (Poet/Novelist)
15+ hour, 54+ min ago (508+ words) Author's reading/talk, Q & A, and book signing event: Chicago native, poet and novelist Phillip B. Williams is the author of two chapbooks and four full-length poetry collections, including Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books 2016), winner of the Kate Tufts…...
Monterey County marks National Poetry Month, crowds gather for Big Sur Marathon
3+ hour, 53+ min ago (267+ words) April is National Poetry Month, and local poets and creatives from around the region gathered at the Monterey Poetry Festival over the weekend. Readings, open mics, workshops, and music were held at Old Capitol Books in downtown Monterey during the…...
To catch an art thief: the mystery of Lucien Freud's Fran. ..
7+ hour, 57+ min ago (1413+ words) Monday 27 April 2026 In "John le Carr's 1963 thriller'The Spy Who Came infrom the Cold, secret agent'Alec Leamas," on his way to a stage-managed defection to East Germany, is led through the "interminable corridors" of "Tempelhof "airport". The'terminal is mothballed now, but…...
Before You Go There Is Something I Need to Tell You
6+ hour, 53+ min ago (346+ words) Two poetry collections reckon with the grief of losing a mother. Yayoi Kusama, Deep Grief, 1954 (Detail). Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum. The first sentence of Patrick White's novel The Aunt's Story (1948) seems to exhale: "But old Mrs Goodman did die…...