If you read any kind of news or are on any kind of social media platform, it’s likely you are, like us, caught up in the emotional rollercoaster of disbelief, […]
Author Archives: Brenda Leifso
I always picture dormant seeds in the ground beginning to stir and turn toward the light today, the darkest day of the year. I try to find a moment to […]
If you’re anything like us, when you are grappling hard with understanding something, you want to read Every. Single. Book on the subject you can get your hands on. Or […]
In a world that often feels too loud, too fast, too much, poetry stands as a beacon of hope and solace. It’s more than mere words on a page; it’s […]
I have a little wall of framed broadsides between my kitchen and bathroom—letterpress gems I’ve bought at bookfairs and readings across the country—and I love how, occasionally, when the light […]
In the now-ramping-up lead in to the Holiday Season, I recently read a social post about getting your loved ones things they really need. Suggestions included a mortgage payment (which, […]
No doubt about it, it’s hard to find respite from the onslaught that is today’s world. And yet poetry has always been a balm of sorts, the art form to […]
What Makes Poetry an Essential Library Acquisition? Poetry has always been the art form to which people turn in times of crisis—in the face of illness, death, or heartbreak, in […]
Alayna’s Reads: Isn’t reading outside in summer a special kind of bliss? Especially under a tree, in a hammock, by a river or lake (or, if you’re really lucky, all […]
In celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous poets Justene Dion-Glowa, Tyler Pennock, and Daniel Lockhart recommend books they treasure by other Indigenous poets: * Justene Dion-Glowa (author of Trailer […]
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