Epstein, Andrew. Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Epstein writes a blog about the New York School of poets, who I am obsessed with, and I’ve been wanting to buy his book for a while, but it is rare and thus fairly expensive. I used some holiday cashContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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Books Acquired Recently
Brown, Keah. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me. New York: Atria, 2019. I recently read an interview of Brown in the latest issue of The Writer’s Chronicle, and her writing sounded interesting, so I decided to buy this memoir. Lehmann, Kat, and Robin Smith,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Mostly Poetry Edition
Akers, Torey. Revolutionary Algorithms: A TikTok Manifesto. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2025. Torey was one of my MFA classmates, and her first book just came out! Brandi, John. The Rain Sweeps Through: A Flurry of Haiku. Chimacum, WA: Empty Bowl Press, 2023. I recently read a review of this collection and it sounded interesting,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Mostly Poetry Edition”
Writing Activity, December 2024
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, December 2024”
Books Acquired Recently: Post-Holiday Edition
I ordered a number of books (mostly poetry or memoir, as usual) with some money I received as a gift for the holidays. Here are the ones that have arrive thus far: Blackwell, Danny, ed. and trans. Haiku from Iberia and Beyond. N.p.: Mono Ya Mono Books, 2018. Chiyo-ni. Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master. Edited andContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Post-Holiday Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Edition
As usual, I received some books as holiday gifts. Here they are: Granberry, Julian, and Gary S. Vescelius. Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004. Jemisin, N.K. The City We Became. New York: Orbit Books, 2020. Nin, Anaïs. Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-32. Boston: Mariner,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Anabaptist Community Bible. Harrisonburg, VA: MennoMedia, 2025. This Bible, which includes commentary from early Anabaptists as well as present-day Anabaptist scholars, is part of the worldwide Anabaptism at 500 project created to celebrate the beginning of Anabaptism on 21 January 1525. Whitman, Walt. Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself. Illustrated by Allen Crawford. Portland: Tin HouseContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Writing Activity, November 2024
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, November 2024”
Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition
Bashō. Bashō’s Narrow Road: Spring & Autumn Passages; “Narrow Road to the Interior” and the Renga Sequence “A Farewell Gift to Sora”. Translated by Hiroaki Sato. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. My obsession with Bashō continues! I have several other translations of Narrow Road…, but I haven’t read A Farewell Gift to Sora before.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition
Barlow, John, and Martin Lucas, eds. The New Haiku. Liverpool: Snapshot Press, 2002. This germinal anthology was just reprinted, and I ordered a copy as soon as I heard they were available. Durand, Marcella, and Jennifer Firestone, eds. Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. This is aContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”
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