Selected Prose News Today

Join a poetry reading and book signing with award-winning poet Major Jackson on Sunday, Feb. 18, at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Seating is limited, so register early.

If a music biography or cultural history is on your list for a gift or personal treat, here are some of the best from this year 

Johnson narrates his collection of essays about racial injustice, the Black British experience, and reggae as a potent force

Ciarán O’Rourke (Jacobin) writes, “Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson calls his verse a ‘cultural weapon in the black liberation struggle.’ For half a century, his work has provided a peerless record of black British experience — offering a vital lesson in how oppression fuels the flame of defiance.” In the beginning,” recalls Linton Kwesi Johnson, “writing…

Yohann Koshy (The Guardian) reviews Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson, “A collection of the radical poet’s writing charts a groundbreaking career chronicling the black British experience.” One Saturday afternoon in 1972, Linton Kwesi Johnson was walking through Brixton market when he noticed three plainclothes police officers arresting a young man. Seeing their excessive use…

Join Bethel’s Byrds Books as they host award-winning poet and writer Major Jackson in conversation with WCSU’s Brian Clements at Broken Symmetry Gastro Brewery on Sunday, October 23

Robert Frost is considered a quintessential New England poet who traced his English-Scotch roots in the region back to 1632. Although born in California...

A Time for Voices: Selected Poems 1960-1990 by Kennelly, Brendan at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  1852240970 - ISBN 13:  9781852240974 - Bloodaxe Books Ltd - 1990 - Softcover

The Book of Judas by Kennelly, Brendan at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  1852241713 - ISBN 13:  9781852241711 - Bloodaxe Books Ltd - 1991 - Softcover

NEW YORK -- Richard Howard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet celebrated for his exuberant monologues of historical figures and a prolific translator who helped introduce readers to a wide range of French literature, has died at age 92.