The 10 Wild Ways of Your Favorite Children’s Books
The people who write children’s literature are wilder than you ever imagined.
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Two Poems About Aging Well by Rita Dove
This post is part of a month long spotlight on the poet Rita Dove, which we are concluding, fittingly, with poems about aging. They are both included in her collection On the Bus with Rosa Parks. Also don’t miss her new collection, published August, 2021, Playlist for the Apocalypse. Against Self Pity Against Self Pity …
Two Poems about Books by Rita Dove
How does reading two poems appearing side by side in a collection show us different ideas? What does Rita Dove want us to understand about reading by putting these poems in a collection about “Freedom”?
Yellow Wife, A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson
What would it be like if the man who owned you, married you, and then forced you to help him sell others? It really happened in the U.S., and Sadeqa Johnson dared to wonder how it felt in “Yellow Wife”.