Tag: poetry

• August 5, 2022

  Reading Through the Stacks: 2. Maya Angelou’s first book of poetry

  Join me as I read my way through the poetry section at the main branch of the Oakland Public Library! First of all, I can’t talk about this book without mentioning how fun this 70s sunset is on the cover–bold, interesting, and really quite simple. I think this library copy is probably a first edition. […]
• July 28, 2022

  New Series: Reading Through the Stacks: Possibly the Most Boring Thing Written about Shakespeare?

  This series is being born out of a dangerous whim, which I can only attribute to the temporary giddiness of a new library card. Upon seeing the (truthfully rather average sized) poetry collection at the main branch, I was seized by an impulse to read from one end of the poetry section to the other. […]
• April 12, 2022

  Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Poets I’m So Excited to Read

  You think you’ve read a lot of poetry for your degree and from whenever you’ve picked up a random collection…. and then you start reading established poets talk about poetry and you realize that the scratch you thought you’d made has in fact left no visible mark at all. Some of these poets I’ve known […]
• April 5, 2022

  Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Ways to Start Reading Poetry

  Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I’ve recently been devoting more (read most) of my time to reading and writing poetry. While I’ve been reading for years, I consider myself a novice in the poetry world. There’s. Just. So. Much. Out. There. I know a lot of readers don’t really know […]
• May 25, 2018

  What I’ve Been Reading This Week

  I subscribe to lots of things–probably too many–and as such whenever I go on vacation (or don’t feel like reading things), I develop a huge backlog of reading. While I was cleaning this week, I’d take I-can’t-stand-it-one-more-minute breaks that I told myself were productive because I was clearing out the back log of feminist newsletters, […]
• July 5, 2016

  10 Really Good Books with Fewer than 2000 ratings on Goodreads

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from the Broke and the Bookish. I know I have been very absent from the blog in the past month or so, but I promise I will be better about that in the future. There are some changes coming to the blog, but I will talk about that […]
• February 19, 2016

  Baking for Bookworms: Apple Cake from Sylvia Plath’s The Collected Poems

  I was a little surprised to find anything I could cook from in Plath’s poems. She’s not exactly a poet you associate with down home cooking. But luckily there was one food that immediately jumped out, and that was apple cake. The mention of apple cake is from her 1959 poem “Point Shirley”, which is […]
• February 9, 2016

  A Year Reading Women Authors

  Above: The first book of my year reading only women authors. As I said at the beginning of my challenge, I tend to read women writers in equal measure to male writers. Using Goodreads to measure, I found that I tended to be split down the middle with my reading the three years previous to […]
• January 14, 2016

  Women Writers Reading Challenge: #68-75 The End

    At first I was going to post the rest of the reading challenge one book at a time, like I did for all the rest of the books, but then I decided that would take weeks to get them all out there, and meanwhile I wouldn’t be able to start posting this year’s books. […]
• December 22, 2015

  Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I Wouldn’t Mind Finding Under My Tree

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature  brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. I think my mom was heartbroken when I asked her if Santa was real in the second grade. She loved the magic of it. She told me that while Santa and fairies might not be real, the magic of […]