Hanif Abdurraqib’s new book shows basketball can be poetry
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic, fervent bookworm and hoops head Chris Vognar.This week we speak with poet…
When Virgil Was In My Arms I Had Paris In The Springtime On My Mind And All I Wrote Was Poetry
The Bible Says You Are Fearfully And Wonderfully Made. For Khanyile Joseph Mlotshwa. I think of your synergy. How the rain saved me. That all…
Opinion: A film projectionist once more, now in L.A. — resurrecting a dying craft
All the crafts that I’ve practiced in my life I’ve done knowing they are either dead or dying. I have a master’s degree in poetry.…
Supporters cry ‘Shame!’ as two Russian poets are given years-long prison terms for reciting poems against Ukraine war
A Moscow court has sentenced two men to long prison terms for reading poems against the war on Ukraine.Key points:Two Russian poets have been given…
Justin Torres wins 2023 National Book Award, Gaza speech ends night
L.A. author Justin Torres and Yale historian Ned Blackhawk were the big winners at the 74th National Book Awards, honored for their works in fiction…
On Days Such as This -Poetry Book Review
On Days Such as This, Gail Dendy. Botsotso, Johannesburg, 2020.ISBN: 978-1-990922-48-0. 60pp The poet wrestles with an intimate flashback, the perception of future, and becomes…
‘As good as Yorkshire but without the tourists’: the pure poetry of Lincolnshire’s Tennyson country | Lincolnshire holidays
Lincolnshire, I am told, has a location problem. Despite being England’s second-biggest county, it remains somehow tucked away, hidden between the Humber and the Wash.…