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In Iceland, they celebrate Christmas Eve with a tradition of jólabókaflóð, the “Yule Book Flood.” People give books on Christmas Eve and spend the evening reading, preferably with chocolate close at hand. Sounds like a great idea to me! It’s easy to have your own Yule Book Flood with Louisiana books this year, which has brought us so many big, beautiful volumes — one good thing to come out of 2020! Visit your favorite indie bookstore — shop local! — and stock up on chocolate. Santa, your book bag runneth over. Beautiful coffee table books “Afro-C...

Jess Walter Doesn’t Have a Lot of Patience for Memoirs Credit...Jillian Tamaki Dec. 17, 2020 “Maybe it’s fatigue with social media and the confessional tone of reality television,” says the author of the new novel “The Cold Millions,” “but I get claustrophobic spending too much time in the head of another writer.” What books are on your night stand? “The Death of Vivek Oji,” by Akwaeke Emezi, “The New Wilderness,” by Diane Cook, “Interior Chinatown,” by Charles Yu, and “Sand,” by Wolfgang Herrndorf. What’s th...

In Protest, that featured guest poet Patricia Smith. SPECIAL HOLIDAY HOURS ON SATURDAYS Special Holiday Sale on Selected Items Stop by our gift shop at 222 Court St. to purchase some unique gifts, including Trail T-shirts and jewelry that are 50% off. You can also purchase books and beautiful prints by Richard Haynes from his underground railroad series, Whispering Quilts. The gift shop will be open on Saturday, December 19 from 11 AM- 3 PM. Get that special something for that special someone this holiday season! Prints are also available for purchase on our website here Please follow...

** Chelsea Dingman’s first book, Thaw, was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Her second poetry collection, Through a Small Ghost, won The Georgia Poetry Prize (University of Georgia Press, 2020). She is also the author of the chapbook, What Bodies Have I Moved (Madhouse Press, 2018) . Visit her website www.chelseadingman.com. INTRODUCTION  If I could tell my younger self one thing about being a poet, it is simply that a writer is someone who writes. That the interaction with the page, that relationship that I’ve valued and ...

At NHPR, Peter Biello speaks with JerriAnne Boggis, executive director of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, about the organization's free virtual series highlighting black poets, "The Black Matter Is Life: Poetry for Engagement and Overcoming."  A recent event featured guest poet Patricia Smith in discussion about poems by James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, Danez Smith, and Elizabeth Alexander. The next event in the series is on January 21, featuring guest poet Jericho Brown. In conversation with Biello, Boggis notes that "it's really just poems that we thought either spo...