http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2014/06/love-and-fury.html
Here is a short video excerpt from Love & Fury, on the Beacon Press blog: http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2014/06/love-and-fury.html
ESSAY DAILY
If you are an essayist, a student of the essay, a reader who loves the form, Ander Monson’s ESSAY DAILY is for you!
Readings from Love & Fury: 6/3/2014: HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, 7pm 6/4/2014: THE ODYSSEY BOOK SHOP, 9 College St., South Hadley Falls, MA, 7pm 6/10/2014: PORTER SQUARE BOOKS, 25 White St., Cambridge, MA, 7pm 6/12/2014: BARNES & NOBLE #1979, 2289 Broadway, NYC, 7pm (“in conversation” w/ Philip Lopate) 6/16/2014: THE HALF KING, 505 West 23rd Street, NYC, 7pm […]
Very pleased to be the most recent in a long line of distinguished guest bloggers on Michael Steinberg’s Blog: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction.Mike’s blog is a polyvocal treasury of good advice on craft and strategy for essayists and memoirists. As the editor of the literary journal Fourth Genre, and co-editor, with Robert […]
From the Black Earth Institute, this remarkable treasury of writings and art assessing Civil Rights in America, edited by writer, activist, and independent scholar Richard Cambridge. From the assassination of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham Church bombing that killed four children in 1963 to the re-election of the first Black president, this issue contains challenging, […]
I am posting a link here to the book trailer for Kathleen Aguero’s latest, After ThatHere is the title poem from that fine collection, her fifth:AFTER THAT she wouldn’t leave the house, or she’d be gone for weeks and return smelling of cigarettes and bleach.She’d say what anyone would, but, like thunder in winter, it […]
The year winds down…. This poem is from EMBLEM: DECEMBER 31st All my undone actions wander naked across the calendar, a band of skinny hunter-gatherers, blown snow scattered here and there, stumbling toward a future folded in the New Year I secure with a pushpin: January’s picture a painting from the 17th century, a still-life: skull […]
A poem from EMBLEM for Columbus Day: EVERYONE Columbus thought he had discovered the Indies so he called the people he encountered Indians, but he was wrong; he had discovered the working class. He took their sage, not their advice; it smoldered like rage but smelled nice. One of the Santa Maria’s crew, avaricious and […]
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