By Millicent Borges Accardi
At any time, especially in the Portuguese community, there is a cause for celebration when the writer Frank X Gaspar publishes a new book, but, perhaps, even more so in the era of the Covid pandemic and social unrest. What better time to delve into a novel that takes place through the eyes of a young Frankie G sorting his way along the streets of Provincetown, Massachusetts and NYC, at the crest of the Vietnam war, and a selection of poetry, seen through the eyes of a mysterious literary muse called Renata as she traipsed through Portugal, in love and passion, amid the Carnation Revolution?
The Paris Review’s mission has always been a dual one: to provide a platform for great literature, and to inspire readers with ambitious new writing. I’m proud that we’ve been able to accomplish both during my time at the
Review, and I would like to thank the writers, readers, and colleagues on staff and the board who have collaborated with me toward these objectives
. The project of the
Review is an ongoing one seven decades strong but over the past three years, I’m particularly proud of a few accomplishments: I’m thrilled to see the quarterly at record high circulation, and that the work we publish in its pages has been recognized by peers, including the 2020 American Society of Magazine Editors’ Award for Fiction and the 2021 volume of
After being cancelled due to the pandemic last year, this year’s Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) Celebration of the Literary Arts has gone virtual. Two poets are scheduled to headline the Wednesday, March 3 event that will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Zoom. Traci Brimhall and Nomi Stone will each read excerpts from a selected work. Brimhall, the author of four poetry collections and a children’s book, was selected for the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and has appeared in
The New Yorker, Poetry, New England Review, Ploughshares, Orion, The Believer, The Nation and
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Hoops (2006), and
Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include
Best American Poetry 2019,
Renga for Obama, and
Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in