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… Doireann Ní Ghríofa : A Ghost in the Throat & To Star the Dark Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, … us to talk about her latest poetry collection, To Star the Dark, and her prose debut, A Ghost in the Throat , a … us to talk about her latest poetry collection, To Star the Dark, and her prose debut, A Ghost in the Throat , a …

… Nonfiction / Poetry Today’s guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the major living poets in the English language. ” Kamau Brathwaite called Brand “ our … Today’s guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the …

… as movements? How does writing from or toward love change the music of our sentences or lines, the shapes of our stories, the way we represent … a bird, a bear, trillium blooming in dark woods, snow, stones, pines singing—moving closer and closer, loving that …

… Caren Beilin : Revenge of the Scapegoat Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, … Caren Beilin, talks about her latest novel Revenge of the Scapegoat. All four of her books—two nonfiction, two … where I'm going to go.” You make for yourself these little stones that you could use if you wanted to because they are …

… 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan … endless empty streets of rubble, every building, one to the next, a hollow blown-out shell of itself. No people, no … All of my conversations feel to me like stepping stones that help me navigate the year, but some of them feel …

… Rickey Laurentiis : Death of the First Idea Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/08/2025 - 7:41am Hybrid / Poetry Ten years in the making, poet Rickey Laurentiis joins us to talk about her much-anticipated remarkable new collection Death of the First Idea.  “In the past decade, as Laurentiis has …

… Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on … Fiction / Hybrid / Nonfiction Jorge Luis Borges called her the “Tolstoy of Mexico” and César Aira the “greatest novelist … you say, "This whole book should be taken with a grain of salt, because even though I never met her, I've fallen in …

… Samatar’s Tone  they construct a shared voice, that of the “Committee to Investigate the Atmosphere.” Yes, they do this to investigate tone, in … which song?” The first thing I thought of was The Rolling Stones, “Hey, hey, you, you, get off of my cloud,” then I …

… Together we center her first novel in over a decade, the remarkable Blackheart Man, and look at what it means to … deeply Caribbean.  Blackheart Man  is a book exploring the “what-ifs” in the histories of marronage (autonomous … Award. Her many other novels and collections include The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms, Falling in Love With …

… began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewis, the composer Vijay Iyer, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and the visual artist Julie … began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewis, the composer Vijay Iyer, the …