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Get snowed in with the best books to read in winter, including “Snowblind” by Ragnar Jónasson, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” and other great reads.

Eva Kristina Olsson Eva Kristina Olsson (b 1958) is the author of several books of poetry and plays, as well as a dancer, performer and filmmaker. She has published many books—including  The Crime (1988),  Eiderwhite (2011), and the verse plays  Antigone’s Face Niobe’s Labyrinth (2013). This excerpt is from her critically acclaimed book  The Angelgreen Sacrament (2017), which Aase Berg called “Torturously beautiful… the best poetry collection of the year” in Dagens Nyheter. The collection will be published in translation later this year by Black Square Editions. ...

Untitled, 1959. Art by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein. Used by permission of Rich Shapero. © Rich Shapero. The Combustion Cycle (Roof Books, 2021), by Will Alexander, gathers three long poems written over two decades: “Concerning the Henbane Bird,” “On Solar Physiology,” and “The Ganges.” At more than 600 pages, the book calls attention to one of the great originals of contemporary US poetry, and at the same time it’s a record of something else—something that has less to do with contemporary US poetry and more to do with another model of time and tra...

** Darren C. Demaree is the author of fourteen poetry collections, most recently Unfinished Murder Ballads, (Backlash Press, 2020). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children. INTRODUCTION  Developing a writing practice and a reading practice takes time. There are so many little things that have ...