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A reflection on the life and poetry of Seamus Heaney
This post is part of our Margaret Atwood Riot Reading Day, a celebration of one of our favorite authors on the occasion of ...
Irish poet, playwright, and translator Seamus Heaney passed away on Friday, August 30. He was a Nobel Prize winning poet, ...
The summer before I went off to college I took a class on 20th Century British Lit at my local ...
Dorothy Parker, a regular contributor to The New Yorker and a member of the Algonquin Round Table, would be celebrating ...
Charles Bukowski, poet, novelist, and writer of short fiction, would have been celebrating his 93rd birthday on August 16. He ...
One rioter reflects on Robert Frost's most famous poem on the anniversary of its publication.
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg Beat Generation photos Kerouac, William Burroughs
A Riot reader from the Midwest was so intrigued by my love letter to Flannery O’Connor, she tweeted me and asked ...
Isn’t it strange that we have the term “well-read” but absolutely no one can come close to defining it? And ...