Category: poetry
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Archive of Adolescence closes
The final volume of McKenna Graf’s Archive of Adolescence series, What’s Left?, officially releases June 13. McKenna graduated from Lafayette College last week and has enrolled in a master’s program at Harvard University. She came to me as a college sophomore and, in a meeting in downtown Easton’s Three Birds Coffee, pitched the idea of a four-book series that covered her…
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Operation Hug at Newtown Bookshop Saturday
From Madeline Marriott about the launch of Operation Hug three weeks ago: Since its official launch at the end of May, everything about Operation Hug has been both incredibly rewarding and just so much fun. I had the privilege of reading to a first-grade class taught by one of my lifelong best friends, and…
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Meeting Abigail Michelini
I met with the new supervisor of NCC’s creative writing program, Abigail Michelini. She revealed that she is initiating a campaign to make the certificate into a full-fledged associate’s degree. This is exciting news. She is also a published poet. She has a chapbook with Lehigh Valley publisher, Thirty West. She is…
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Less Permanent Black Out
Black Out Poetry has made a couple appearances in my life recently, once in R. Diskin Black’s workshop with the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group in late April and once while reading Urvi Thakker’s honors thesis. (Urvi is a senior at Lafayette College, where McKenna Graf is also a member of the Class of 2026. Congrats to…
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Summer Must Reads
If you’re looking for your summer must-reads, let me suggest:
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Night of the Swaying Grass
Tomorrow, The Night of Swaying Grass debuts. This memoir by R. Diskin Black features 63 poems that tell Black’s history, celebrates finding oneself, honors the heritage of New York City and explores topics from finding oneself to recognizing the AIDS crisis of the late 1980s. Black understands that life is hard but he also knows,…
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Poetry worthy of a Parisian Café
The celebration for Nancy Scott’s 1,000 career bylines included candy cigarettes, espresso, and croissants reminiscent of the beat poets in a long-lost mid-twentieth century Paris cafe. Let me give you this video of Nan reading her poem “The Knife,” which appeared in Disabled Tales, an online journal from the United Kingdom, as byline 999. You can…
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New poetry releases this week
Kathryn Dohrmann’s first of two small poetry chapbooks releases this week– the second will follow in the spring of 2026. Archaeomythology explores the connection between people, poetry and place. EVENTS November 2025 Ringing in 2026
Parisian Phoenix Publishing 