Connecting with Kim Addonizio’s “Plastic”
by Monica Johnson · April 20, 2015As the world awakens from the slumber of winter, we are reminded that the Earth is very much alive. Shoots rise from the soil and flowers [...]
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AWP Conference in Minneapolis—Here We Come!
by Megan Sexton · April 07, 2015If you are going to be at the Associated Writing Programs annual conference in Minneapolis later this week, we hope you will stop by the book [...]
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Edward Hirsch Reading at GSU on April 2nd, 3:00pm
by Megan Sexton · March 27, 2015We are honored to be hosting Edward Hirsch at GSU on Thursday, April 2nd. He will read from his poetry and also sign books. The reading [...]
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One River, One Boat
by Marjorie Wentworth · March 24, 2015As South Carolina’s Poet Laureate, I have written quite a few occasional poems for a wide variety events—from the opening of a bridge to the closing [...]
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“The Future Once”: Exploring Alienation and Elegy in Tracy K. Smith’s LIFE ON MARS
by Andrea Rogers · March 10, 2015A few years ago, as I read Tracy K. Smith’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Life On Mars, I began to wonder why it affected me as it did, [...]
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Connecting with Jennifer Haigh’s “Thrift”
by Monica Johnson · February 20, 2015Hearts. Balloons. Red. Pink. Love. Ah, February. Valentines, sold in neat packages, on printed greeting cards, and arranged in vases. Love sold as compact, predictable, and [...]
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