Nancy Snyder

I am a left coast native and writer; my working life began after studying at San Francisco State University; I have been an office worker and a labor organizer; longtime freelance writer covering books and labor and assorted cultural and political issues.

Poetry on the Barracks Walls of Angel Island

Learn about the poetry written on the barrack walls by Chinese immigrants confined on Angel Island, and read some of their words here.

Celebrate Pride with the Poetry of Sappho

She was demonized, her work was publicly burned, but Sappho's words live. Celebrate Sappho through her sapphic love poems to women.

7 Powerful Quotes From LOVE MEDICINE by Louise Erdrich

These powerful LOVE MEDICINE quotes resonated with one reader and kept them returning to Louise Erdrich's work in search of meaning.

THE JOY LUCK CLUB: Scenes from the Mother and Daughter Question

The Contradictions of Spring: Literary Quotes About Spring

Enjoy these literary quotes about spring, exploring the other side of a murkier season along with a spring imagined as always bright, always sunny.

10 Extraordinary Langston Hughes Poems

How The Audiobook Industry Began: With A Dylan Thomas Children’s Classic

New Year’s Always Comes: Quotes from the Literati to Welcome 2019

Usher in the new year with these quotes from literary icons.

Wisdom for the Winter Season

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED Quotes To Understand The Vietnam War

On reading Tim O'Brien's classic novel THE THINGS THEY CARRIED to understand the American soldier in Vietnam.