Book Review: Kathleen Hellen’s Umberto’s Night
Kathleen Hellen’s award-winning poetry book Kathleen Hellen’s Umberto’s Night won the 2012 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize. Its black cover, with an apocalyptic image of a city under an atomic fireball,...
View Article5 Questions for Jen Michalski, Author of The Tide King
Baltimore-based author and editor, Jen Michalski. When author Jen Michalski was featured in the Baltimore Sun this summer, the headline called 2013 “a prolific year” for her. That phrase is...
View ArticleBook Review: Meg Eden’s A Week With Beijing
I’ve never been to Beijing, so Meg Eden’s invitation to take a trip there via poetry was exciting. My exposure to Eden’s poetry, particularly her collection The Girl Who Came Back (which draws heavily...
View ArticleBook Review: Yarmulkes & Fitted Caps
My experience of my heritage is curiously American, curiously Jewish. My paternal great grandparents immigrated from Ukraine. I don’t know when, or if my grandfather was born yet, or if my paternal...
View ArticleMake Believe as Metaphor
This post was originally published on June 1, 2011. It’s being re-shared as part of LPR’s 10th Anniversary. Vonnie Winslow Crist Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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