For Teju Cole, prose, poetry, and photography tug against and bleed into one another. At the tenth anniversary of Amherst College’s LitFest, on March 1, 2025, Cole spoke with The Common’s Editor in Chief Jennifer Acker about his novel Tremor,| Literary Hub
Today (October 5th) starts Banned Books Week here in the USA. I’m not sure which books I’m going to read for Banned Books Week this year, but I do want to pick up something appropriate.…| BookWyrm Knits
In 2017, Valerie Stivers started writing about food in classic fiction for The Paris Review. Her particular project for the “Eat Your Words” column would be cooking and baking her way through literature. It was a larger undertaking than she realized and became something of an obsession. A selection of the greatest hits made it […]| Bookish Beck
Presented here is a collection of documentaries and biopics exploring the lives of iconic women poets: Maya Angelou, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Julia de Burgos, Emily Dickinson, Ingrid Jonker, and Sylvia Plath. On the surface, it wouldn’t seem like a full-length film about a poet would be anything to write home about, so to speak. But behind their deep, soulful lines were complex lives, not always spent at a desk. Best of all, most of the films in this roundup can be viewed gratis on YouT...| Literary Ladies Guide
Hello and welcome to our virtual pub of poetry! This is Michelle (aka Mish) from mishunderstood.wordpress.com bringing you Tuesday’s Poetics. As I sit here trying to focus on writing a prompt…| dVerse
In "Two Emilys," poet Andrea Potos pays tribute to two writers and poets -- Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson.| Tweetspeak Poetry
Poetry is the remembrance and avowal of loss and is accordingly pushed aside.| Vox Populi
Honey and clover| yirt