Kingdom Books, Mysteries - Reviews

[Intaglio prints embodying the poems of Cleopatra Mathis.] It's been a wildly busy week, and the poetry events of yesterday (Cleopatra M...

The steady sequence of crime fiction by Californian John Lescroart has featured most prominently the characters Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky...

Novelist Andrea Barrett is scheduled to read at the Vermont Studio Center tomorrow night. Bring your questions about process and depth; she...

Saturday March 31, 4 p.m., at St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, we participate in that gracious institution's award of the Athenaeum Medal in the...

As a young adult reader, I found my way from THE HOBBIT to the three volumes of THE LORD OF THE RINGS simply -- the books were already publi...

Lips. Tongue. Desire. Belly. Straddling, sweating, entering. This powerful new collection from Vermont/Hawai'i poet Ellen Dudley groans,...

Attention all those who want to make sure young poets get the door or window to climb through into writing MORE. Show them this information....

[Cemetery by the ocean, photo by Jef Maion] I appreciate the threads that lead from book to book. Reading Henning Mankell led me to Karin Fo...

Meg Kearney, director of Pine Manor College and author of two collections of poetry, is also a contributor to the newly released BOOK OF IRI...

Reeve Lindbergh writes for "grownups" often enough -- a gifted narrator, she has provided three book-length memoirs of the Lindber...

Maxine Kumin read her poetry this afternoon at Plymouth State University, introduced by her "neighbor," U.S. poet laureate Donald ...

I've watched Ellen Bryant Voigt confront a group of teachers who had forgotten how to listen, how to see, most importantly, how to think...

Frank Bidart was announced the winner of the Bollingen Prize by Yale University in a media release that went out on Monday. Here is almost t...

When I wrote about Bruce Weigl's book DECLENSION IN THE VILLAGE OF CHUNG LUONG, I found a cluster of war-related books of poetry on the ...

It's the big bicentennial year for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and today marks 200 years since his birth. The Today Show will have a seg...

Tonight's poetry reading at the Vermont Studio Center, scheduled for John Haines, has been changes to David Huddle; Haines had "a m...

One of the poets I plan to read more from this year is Kathleen Aguero. Professor of English at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., ...

Like Inspector Ian Rutledge himself, the small coastal town of Hampton Regis has suffered from a force of nature: The changing coastline has...

Vermonter Chris Bohjalian's new book THE DOUBLE BIND, barely released, is climbing best-seller lists the way his MIDWIVES did, and Amazo...

"To acquire another language is to acquire another soul." Poets know this best, since they notice immediately the possibilities of...