This enchanting coastal hamlet nestled along Connecticut’s shoreline is the living embodiment of every small-town romance movie ever made – except here, the charm is authentic, the characters are real ...
Hi, I’m Juan J. Morales, an assistant professor of English at Colorado College and a poet in Pueblo, Colorado, here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m excited to share with you a poem by fellow ...
A bookstore is a place where we go to be alone with other people’s thoughts, but The Literary has spent the last year ...
It is just that walking has value and significance for us. Walking under the open sky and beneath trees is a profound experience for me. It is like getting my creative batteries charged. I often ...
A Russian family seeking asylum in the U.S. say their children endured worms in the food and long waits for medication in an ICE detention center.
Denis Johnson wrote about some of the most unlikable characters in American fiction, and yet he always managed to make readers care what happened to them. This talent may have had something to do with ...
The follow-up to Araluen’s critically acclaimed Dropbear (a bestseller in a tough market where poetry barely sells) is once again a mix of poetic prose. It’s still vehement and pretty grim: a ...
The old days were tough for Mychal Wilmes' parents and older siblings. He didn't have it much better, though he was reminded ...
This month's offerings include a picture book from a beloved librarian, a middle grade novel in verse about a tween's appreciation for her local library, a YA novel grappling with the aftereffects of ...
From 1943 to 1945, Bloch produced 96 editions of 'The Underwater Cabaret' while he and other Jews hid from the Nazis in an attic crawlspace.
His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the ...
In this episode of Paddling with Kids, Ken Whiting explains how to paddle with small children in canoes, kayaks and stand up paddleboards, and offers some tips on making it safe and fun for everyone.