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Category: Fiction, Literature, and the Arts
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do/with your one wild and precious life?”
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If you were surfing in Santa Cruz yesterday and you got a free book… you can thank World Book Night!
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In celebration of National Poetry Month, Beacon Press is giving you a chance to win autographed copies of Mary Oliver’s books.
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The poet Adrienne Rich passed away yesterday.
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Edward Cullen as a ruthless CEO with bondage fetish? You have now entered the Twilight fanfic zone.
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Today’s post, a poem written in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is from poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez.
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Four days after the attacks of 9/11, a chance encounter with firefighters on their way to the World Trade Center site inspired Joan Murray to write a poem.
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An excerpt from a book that provides a different view of the lives of African-American domestics from the one depicted in The Help.
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Mary Oliver asks, “[W]hat is it you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious life?”
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The groundbreaking science fiction writer Joanna Russ died on April 29 at the age of 74. Stephen Burt discusses the importance of her work as a woman writing in a male-dominated field.
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