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Appears to be intensifying and becoming more wide spread all across the san jose area out to Mount Hamilton on to the east bay we have wide spread area of rain from concord down to lafayette and san ramone. Dublin livermore discovery pay all showing rainfall hitting the ground right now with you our totals a of a few minutes ago show only 2 hundredths of an inch so far in san jose t. At Mountain View 2 hundredths at half moon bay. 200 up at fairfield but when we get later readings in just a few ...

Keith Waldrop, whose first poetry collection was a finalist for a National Book Award in 1969 and who won the award 40 years later with his “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy,” died on July 27. He was 90.

Keith Waldrop, whose first poetry collection was a finalist for a National Book Award in 1969 and who won the award 40 years later with his “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy,” died on July 27. He was 90.

He won the National Book Award for poetry in 2009, having first been nominated 40 years earlier. He taught at Brown University for four decades.

Nerys Williams reflects on the process of writing and tells us about the five books which inspired her as a writer.

Nerys Williams reflects on the process of writing and tells us about the five books which inspired her as a writer.

Too many of us set out viewing each day as a fresh challenge, when the real battle is within. Can we find the strength to stay vulnerable?

Tupelo Press, 2021 If you are someone like me who usually – but not always – closes her correspondence to friends and family with the word “love,” Jennifer Militello’s “The Pact” (Tupelo Press) might make you want to think about what it means when you use – or withhold – that word. For the Militello in this, her fifth poetry collection, the language of love feels oxymoronic, characterized by violence, fierce ironies and impossible obligations, conditions very far from any reli...