Breaking With Books I rip up Julie Choffel’s book, The Hello Delay. I take the cover and pin it to the wall. I take the first page and pin it to the wall. When I read that page I will unfasten the pin and turn… Read More
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Civil Rights Poetry
My friend and mentor Jeff Coleman had been working on his anthology of American Civil Rights Era poetry, Words of Protest, Words of Freedom, for so long I stopped asking him when it was coming out. I also stopped asking Jeff partly because there was a… Read More
Book Notes: CHINA COWBOY by Kim Gek Lin Short
Kim’s book is provocative, wrenching, and accomplishes that oh so rare feat of both giving me pause and making me want to rush into the next page, of wanting to savor the language while the content leaves my skin crawling. But instead of writing a… Read More
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