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Here Comes the Scribe: A Bookish Wedding Retold

Reader, I married her. Wearing tweed. Surrounded by vintage books. Pablo Neruda was there. As was Robert Burns. A Latin ...

That Bookstore Smell

I used to live in Cambridge in the early ’90s before ebooks, before the iPhone, when I was in my ...

Is Nostradamus Literature?

So Penguin Classics, a press whose website brags about being “…timeless and trendsetting,” is about to publish a book of ...

“Poems Like Boxers”: Anyone Been to Peace Camp?

This past weekend, murmured poetry and glowing tents illuminated the British shoreline in an installation called Peace Camp. Have any ...

Summer Reading Poetry: The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa

Summer reading should include some poetry, is what I tell myself, as a kind of a challenge, but it should ...

Random Bits of Poetry That Have Lodged in My Brain

I didn’t go to any schools that really required memorization. I have a vague memory of needing to memorize the ...

Four International Writers To Know

Sometimes it seems like men named Jonathan have a monopoly on American Literary Fiction. While this might be true, it ...

Sunday Diversion: The Deaths of Minor American Poets

My favorite poetry anthology is The Oxford Book of American Poetry. It has a diverse and representative selection of poets ...