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  • Post-Election 2016 Reading to Inspire Action, Find Meaning, and Learn from Our History

    The results of the 2016 presidential election have left many people in shock and disappointment. In a time where people are fearing that a new administration will work to reverse much of the progress made in the last eight years, we are left wondering what the future holds. How do we continue to fight against…

  • Conversing About Verse: Beacon Press and Poetry

    Q&A with Helene Atwan Photo credit: Bob Kosturko What has been Beacon’s relationship with poetry? For the past decade or more, Beacon’s poetry program, such as it was, focused largely on two key poets we have published over many years, Sonia Sanchez and Mary Oliver. There would be the occasional exception anthology we would add…

  • Dreaming of Miami in December

    Beacon’s Director, Helene Atwan, fondly remembers last month’s Miami Book Fair and all the great writers—and food and drinks—she encountered there.

  • Happy Holidays from Beacon Press!

    The Broadside’s official guide to Beacon’s annual holiday sale. Save 20% off everything at www.beacon.org with promo code GIFT20, including titles by Richard Blanco, Lauren Slater, Mike O’Connor, Jeanne Theoharis, Rodger Streitmatter and Bill Ayers.