After trying spine poetry at home, I set out to see what I could build elsewhere. Starting at Grey Matter Books on York Street, I realized that curating a stack of books whose titles could add up to a poem was definitely more challenging when I didn’t know the inventory—and when there was so very […]
Tag Archives: poetry
Chapters and Verse
Sitting at a table in the cheerful sun room of her East Haven home, sipping from a mug of coffee small enough to wrap her hand all the way around, poet Marilyn Nelson weaves one tale after another. (more…)
Confessions
August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Reginald Dwayne Betts is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy this excerpt from (more…)
As Far as Allowed
August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Claire Zoghb is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy these poems from Zoghb’s chapbook Dispatches from Everest. (more…)
A Distant Music
August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Claire Zoghb is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy these poems from Zoghb’s chapbook Boundaries. (more…)
And Only Then
August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Claire Zoghb is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy these poems from Zoghb’s collection Small House Breathing. (more…)
Close to Home
From the ancient capital of Egypt, where a man buys fresh bread “just after the first call / to prayer, when the sky, still star-filled, / goes lavender along the city’s rooftops,” to (more…)
Soul of Wit
What began as an attempt to write through the busy years of raising a family took an unexpected turn for Sylvia Forges-Ryan. (more…)
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