Kingdom Books, Mysteries - Reviews

New Hampshire resident and New England poet Donald Hall co-sponsors a literary series at Plymouth State University (Plymouth, NH), and the u...

[photo courtesy of Star Black] If you missed Henri Cole's reading at the Vermont Studio Center last night, you still can catch up with h...

Spending vacation time in northern New England? Or here for the duration? My calendar is jammed with events lately. POETRY: Thursday August ...

The poems in the cycle that became Lia Purpura's KING BABY (Alice James Books, 2008) erupted over a period of four months. They range fr...

On Monday August 25, Henri Cole will read his poetry at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, starting at 8 p.m., in the lecture ha...

Dave and I became fascinated with the work of Barry Moser years ago. We found his illustrations and design work accompanying the poems of Pa...

I'm trying to catch up on some British authors this month, and just enjoyed my second John Harvey "novel of crime" -- this tim...

With the passing of the Stinehour Press this spring, and thus the local gathering place for typographers and book designers each summer, Kin...

Poets and poetry lovers will converge on Jerry Johnson’s bucolic home and farm in East Albany, in the heart of the Northeast Kingdom, on Sat...

Rachel Hadas, whose 12 books of poetry are deeply rooted in her classics background and her years as a young woman in Greece, took the podiu...

Before I headed to the Vermont Studio Center last week to hear Ed Ochester read his work, I mentioned his name to a couple of poets hanging ...

Each year The Frost Place selects a resident poet for the summer -- a poet who will live where Robert Frost did (1915-20), eat in the Frost ...

John Harvey will be the international guest of honor at Bouchercon this October -- reason enough to get acquainted with his work. He's ...

When author Eliot Pattison arrived here at Kingdom Books on Sunday evening, he had a quiet glow of satisfaction that he soon explained -- Th...

The best-laid plans ... you know the rest. Here's a photo that Dave captured of Edgar Award-winning author Eliot Pattison as he read alo...

Today was the finale of the Festival and Conference on Poetry -- the 31st one at the Frost Place in Franconia, NH. Here's a snippet from...

There will soon be a new tool available for lyric and narrative poets: Ellen Bryant Voigt is now finishing a book on syntax -- the way words...

Sorry to be fairly quiet this week -- it's the Festival and Conference on Poetry up at the Frost Place, and I've been attending a go...

Yes, there is a difference between a relaxed writer of poetry and a poet who resolutely hones his work to the finest standard. And it's ...

The lights in Robert Frost's small sturdy barn glowed softly as James Hoch took the podium this evening. From his first laughing interch...