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  • Poems to Live By in Our Troubled Times

    By Helene Atwan: Is it only in April that we’re supposed to appreciate poetry? After all, as this April in New England is proving beyond a doubt, it is the cruelest month. But maybe that’s why we need poetry . . . Now, more than ever, we’ve discovered that we need poetry not just to…

  • 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…

  • What It Means to Be Free: Liberation in Performance and Verse

    On Monday, October 5th, I had the privilege to join Helene Atwan, our director, and Tom Hallock, our associate publisher and director of sales and marketing, at Boston Symphony Hall for the Terezín Music Foundation’s 2015 Gala, “Liberation: A Concert Honoring the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Nazi Camps.” This celebration perfectly timed…

  • 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…

  • A Little Chronicle of Our Trip to Cuba

    By Ruth Behar This blog appeared originally on Bridges to/from Cuba. For years Richard Blanco and I had talked about traveling to Cuba together. Finally the time seemed right. On June 13th, we met up at the airport in Miami. We were told to arrive five hours before our departure time. That turned out to…

  • Five Books for Fathers (and People Who Have Fathers)

    As Father’s Day approaches, we’ve been thinking of books we’d recommend to our own fathers. Here are five titles that share a deep interest in the world, or that tell the story of fatherhood itself, with all its memories and complexities and sometime revelations. If your father is anything like ours, we’re sure he would…

  • 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.

  • James Baldwin, Sonia Sanchez, Richard Blanco: Making Poetry for All of Us

    Beacon director Helene Atwan introduces new books from James Baldwin and Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco.