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Category: Fiction, Literature, and the Arts
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Find out more about Morning Haiku and how you can win a poster with a poem by Sonia Sanchez.
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See Mary Oliver read three of her poems, from an appearance at Emory University earlier this year.
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In honor of National Poetry Month, we share this essay by Mary Oliver, which was included in the CD Many Miles: Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver. Beacon Press is giving away five signed copies of Mary Oliver’s Swan: Poems and Prose Poems. For details and to read a poem from the book, visit MaryOliver.Beacon.org. You can enter once…
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In honor of National Poetry Month, Beacon Press will give away five signed copies of Mary Oliver’s Swan: Poems and Prose Poems.
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A rare interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available in a new, altered version. The author of Inheriting the Trade writes about why he thinks this is a bad idea.
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Out now: Swan: Poems and Prose Poems, the twentieth volume from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Mary Oliver. Read the title poem on the Beacon Press website.
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Suffolk Law professor Michael Avery remarks on contemporary themes prevalent in Shakespeare’s Henry V.
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We invite you to join the poet Maya Angelou called, “a lion in literature’s forest,” as she lifts her voice in tribute to Dr. Dorothy Irene Height.
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Beacon Press congratulates Bellevue Literary Press for Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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