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Thrilled to be 1 of 7 faculty members at Oklahoma State Univ. awarded a Regents Distinguished Research Award!! I'm ready to start researching a new writing project for 2025 Unbound Edition Press Fiction Collective 2 Women Writers Network #WritingCommmunity CAS Research OSU OSU Creative Writers Association news.okstate.edu/articles/commu…

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay:

In very difficult times, we side with what's human, with what people have made, with what communities gather around. For us, that is books. We are here to advance books written by humans, edited by humans, designed by humans, and connecting humans. Let's keep humanity thriving,

Pamela Alexander, Teresa Cader and Angie Estes are reading at the shop on Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 at 7 pm. Martha Collins is giving the introductions. Please join us in person or virtually. Sign up via our website.

I will use myself up again tomorrow. It's why my eyes stay open all night and my heart throws itself to the stars. To see which ones decide to stand still and grow a constellation around me.

With great joy, we are recording our first audiobook. Read by Alexander Cheves himself (Alexander Cheves), My Love Is a Beast: Confessions will be available for listeners everywhere very soon! #books #audiobooks #memoir #lgbtq #literary

"I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense." ~ David Lynch

John Cage: 10 Rules For Students And Teachers

America, wake up. Words like 'evil' and 'stupid' are irrelevant: the man is mad. Out of his mind. Deranged. Seeing things that aren't there. He needs to be in psychiatric care. Who among you is going to admit this and take charge of the situation?

We are overjoyed to publish Angie Estes' seventh collection. She is among our nation's finest poets... and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for very good reasons! unboundedition.com/product/last-d… #poets #poetry #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity

We are ready for this year's #AWP. What the #writingcommunity does now is more important than ever. #literary #resist #dissent.

American Library Association (ALA) Statement on White House Assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services infodocket.com/2025/03/15/ala… #libraries #museums #IMLS

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.” —Susan Sontag buff.ly/x5hV8mQ

The thing about classics is that they are always timely. Here is Hunter S Thompson on Richard Nixon: "that dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character“

Someone had to say it: thetimes.com/uk/arts/articl…

In "Near-Earth Object” (Unbound Edition Press), poet John Shoptaw emphasizes that resilience and creation are as much a part of our behavioral repertoire as violence and despoliation. New review by Lee Rossi in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/near-earth-obj…

In The TLS I review a smart new selection of Zbigniew Herbert’s verse. One of the 20th C’s indispensable poets, Herbert wrote of and for his time but kept his eye on eternity; our era’s crises were to him acts in the unending drama of the human condition. the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

“A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.” —Jorie Graham buff.ly/S95uQ8d