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MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: April 5, 2021 6 April is National Poetry Month, and 2021 marks the 25th annual celebration of poets and poetry. Visit the poets.org site for ways to find and connect with poets and poems. You can sign up to get a poem-a-day in your inbox! There are poems for kids and teens; ways for kids to interact directly with award-winning poets as part of Dear Poet; many poets reading their own work. So much poetry! More poetry-related headlines to hit you with! At age 80, ...

... People watch on Fillmore Street while feasting on Northern Italian dishes like grilled octopus and funghi risotto at The Tailors Son. (Courtesy of @thetailorssonsf) 27 Fun Things to Do This Week (4.05.21) By Apr 05, 2021 Hope youre hungry because this week brings a new restaurant and food hall to try (hi, Tailors Son on Fillmore and La Cocina Municipal Market) plus drag brunch at The Vault. Plus, catch Fantastic Negrito performing a live movie score at the San Francis...

Here Are the 15 New Books You Should Read in April Time 3 days ago © Provided by Time The best new books arriving in April tackle a wide range of subjects, from a sweeping anthology that illuminates the history of Black farmers in the United States to the firsthand account of an EMT in New York City. This month welcomes the return of award-winning authors like Jhumpa Lahiri and Haruki Murakami as well as the first novels from Morgan Jerkins and JoAnne Tompkins. Here, the best books to read ...

23 books to read in 2021 Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter It has been nearly a year now since most of us have enjoyed a book in any of the usual places: a coffee shop, on a commute, in an airplane, on a beach. But that hasnt stopped people from reading — in fact, the opposite. Speaking personally, 2020 made me extra grateful for all the moments I spent with paper and ink, away from yet another screen containing no good news. Now we seem on the cusp of ...

The 15 books we cant wait to read in 2021 Seija Rankin How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, by Cherie Jones A devastating — and devastatingly good — novel that covers domestic violence, murder, loss, and poverty in a coastal Barbados village. (Feb. 2) © Provided by Entertainment Weekly How the One Armed Sister sweeps her House The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen The sequel to Nguyens 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner, The Sympathizer, follows our unnamed narrator, this ti...

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury) The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria. The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking) Last year the Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel. Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N) A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins ...

Books to look out for in 2021 Irish fiction New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation. Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.” Small Things Like These...