This piece was inspired by a Wesleyan history class assignment.

Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she ...

Hampton resident Bethany Jarmul has released her debut full-length poetry collection, “Lightning Is a Mother,” with ELJ ...

The weather has recently evoked the image of an oversized leather chair, a crackling fireplace, a rich mug of hot chocolate ...

These descriptions constitute what is popularly known as the book blurb: a short but effusive recommendation of the book from famous authors or, for later editions, from book reviewers. But a ...

Searing. Volatile. That’s how Sean Manning felt about the prattle on every second book cover. Even those he’d published, where a novel looked naked without such blurb cliches as uproarious ...

The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain” is an ambitious anthology edited by Doralee Brooks and featuring 140 poems, all either about ...

Steven Duong is a fiction writer and poet from San Diego, California. His short fiction has made an appearance in The ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...