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Book of the Day Roundup: July 3-7, 2023

by Barbara Hodge

The All-American / Susie Finkbeiner / Revell / Softcover $16.99 (368pp) / 978-0-8007-3936-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Sisters’ lives are upended when their father is accused of being a communist in Susie... Read More

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Book of the Day Roundup: June 26-30, 2023

by Barbara Hodge

Becoming Delilah / Sara Marchant / Fairlight Books / Softcover $15.95 (256pp) / 978-1-914148-26-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Sara Marchant’s novel Becoming Delilah, a pragmatic woman flees the trauma of her old... Read More

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Ephemera

by Matt Sutherland

A relationship advice podcaster advocating “just break up,” Sierra DeMulder champions the value of those things that exist only briefly: love, life—“every poem is about death / when you are reading to the dying”—music,... Read More

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Flare, Corona

by Matt Sutherland

Edginess, unsettlement, a sense of foreboding: what weather can come to bear and a skillful poet with some thoughts on mortality to share. Jeannine Hall Gailey’s ability to turn it up—or down, thankfully—is what makes reading her... Read More

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Heavy Is the Head

by Matt Sutherland

Black women poets matter in ways that poets of other races and ethnicities can’t: “Black girl must write poetry so other black girls can relate.” That Black girl poetry readers matter … do you understand? This debut collection... Read More

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What to Count

by Matt Sutherland

Sound. Alise Alousi sounds her words to arrive as cadence, as music, as magic. Sounds easy, until you realize how large her collection of eye teeth would be if she traded her secret with other poets. A Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and the... Read More

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