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Donika Kelly

… Donika Kelly Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations , winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in poetry, and Bestiary , the winner of the 2015 … Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations , winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in poetry, and Bestiary , the winner of the 2015 …

Elizabeth Grey

… Elizabeth Grey is a writer, retreat facilitator, and end-of-life doula. She grew up on Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan … shores and spent much of her adult life moving around the country’s northern latitudes. Her interest in birds was … her retired sled dog, Tommy, and Migration is her first book. …

Lewis Hyde

… Fellow and renowned author, his previous books include The Gift , Trickster Makes This World , and A Primer for Forgetting . Hyde is a trustee of MacDowell and a founding director of Creative Capital. He was previously the director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard …
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Hybrid / Poetry

Danez Smith : Bluff

— 11/08/2024
… / Poetry Danez Smith’s poetry is so many things, a poetry of resistance, of elegy, of joy, of care, of repair. Their … that questions poetry itself and even more so, questions the poet, a poetry that is continually in the process of … Nam Le for the New Your Times, speaking of Smith’s new book Bluff,  doesn’t just suggest that this book is a major …
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Nonfiction

Lacy M. Johnson : The Other Side

— 02/17/2016
… Lacy M. Johnson : The Other Side Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, … not only her physical self, but also to move through years of incapacitating fear by writing this book, is breathtaking: ‘I lift the chain from my neck, over … powerfully moving and brilliantly structured memoir, The Other Side , asks, ‘How is it possible to reclaim the …
A black and white image of Tomaz Salamun sitting at a desk with a book open

Tomaž Šalamun

… in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry and his work has been … prior to becoming an acclaimed poet, his honors include the Prešeren Prize, the European Prize for Poetry, the … in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry and his work …
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Poetry

Ama Codjoe : Bluest Nude

— 11/19/2022
… 11/19/2022 - 6:17pm Poetry “On Seeing and Being Seen” is the title of an Ama Codjoe poem but it   could just as easily be a … debut collection Bluest Nude as a whole. Bluest Nude is a book that engages with ways of seeing, and its poems often … “On Seeing and Being Seen” is the title of an Ama Codjoe poem but it   could just as easily …
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Fiction / Nonfiction

Genevieve Hudson : Pretend We Live Here

— 01/13/2019
… - 2:00am Fiction / Nonfiction “A terrific collection of stories. There are echoes here of Flannery O’Connor, Barry … her own writer—impressively and gloriously so. Her eye for the clinching detail is unnerving and her sympathies are fascinatingly conflicted. I hope, and suspect, this book will be the start of a long and inspiring career.” —Tom …
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Fiction / SF/F

Colson Whitehead : Zone One

— 12/29/2011
… about his new novel Zone One , described as a “wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel.” The world has been devastated by a plague. There are two types of survivors: the uninfected and the infected, the living and … Hides the Hurt , and  Sag Harbor . He has also written a book of about his hometown, a collection of essays called  …
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Fiction / SF/F

Georgi Gospodinov : Time Shelter

— 01/01/2023
… poet, essayist, and more, Georgi Gospodinov, is the perfect writer to bring in the new year. Gospodinov is a … imagination, and memory. A writer raised on the stories of his grandmother, on the fantastical tales of Márquez and … translator Izidora Angel said in her review of the book: “Beneath the book’s speculative façade, it’s also clear …