Author: allison burris
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt was a freebie related to Halloween. I love Halloween. The dress up and magic and witches and candy and caramel apples….so fantastic. One of my favorite things to do around this time of year is watch Halloween appropriate movies. But I’m not…
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This week’s prompt is book-adjacent, but a fun prompt for me as a poet. It’s about favorite words. And actually limiting it to ten was extremely difficult, so I have chosen (with much narrowing down) a dozen to share with you. Have you ever repeated a word so often that it loses all its meaning?…
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Join me as I read through the Oakland Public Library poetry collection. So this week has not quite gone to plan, and this book is going to be a few days overdue. Whoops. But I’m glad that I finished it and didn’t just turn it back in because I so thoroughly enjoyed Troy Jollimore‘s collection,…
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I’m the kind of person who always brings a book to the cabin and…never reads more than a few pages of it. I go on trips with several book and come back with most of them unread except for the audiobook on the plane. I’m often lucky if I get a single book read on…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Findings by Wendell Berry, published in 1969. Wendell Berry (1934-) is a novelist, essayist, poet, environmental activist, and farmer. His work is grounded in place, and the landscape of Kentucky, where he was born and has spent a large portion of his life, is very important to…
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Reading through the Oakland Public Library’s poetry collection. Today we’re discussing a new book: These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit by Hayan Charara. Hayan Charara (1972–) grew up in Detroit, and some of his poetry deals with the decay of this particular urban landscape, his Lebanese cultural roots come through mostly in meditations…
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I’m not going to lie–it took me a while to get through this collection: Selected Poems by Kenneth Patchen. And while the book wasn’t terrible, I’m really glad that it wasn’t the complete poems because I don’t know how much more of his work I really wanted to read. Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) wrote over 40…
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The prompt for today was to talk about book covers that either were solely composed of type or used mainly typographic elements. I cannot think of many designers that design more beautiful covers than Jessica Hische. Hische is a letterer, author, and a Brooklyn transplant…
Allison Burris 