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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 ...
In Read This, Then That, we pair new books with classics that have similar themes, structures, and stories. That A ...
I have a confession to make: I used to hate poetry. Reading poetry is a lot like meditating and I ...
As a geek who divides his time between books and video games, I seriously cherish those wonderful moments when literature ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a story about alluring surfaces and rotted insides, about beautiful lies and ugly ...
It’s April 30th. Have you read your poem yet? You know how it is. You see the blog posts about ...
My last post, about reading out loud, has naturally lead me to the consideration of what we memorize. The act ...
When it comes to poetry, timelessness is a red herring, or a white elephant, or some other distractingly burdensome creature. ...
My favorite poetry anthology is The Oxford Book of American Poetry. It has a diverse and representative selection of poets ...