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Mailbox Monday #720

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss

Source: gift Paperback, 432 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss is a fun holiday read by the end, but you have to get through some awkwardness first. That can be true of meeting your childhood crush after years away, or of reconnecting with friends of means after […]

Reading Challenge: 12 books recommended by 12 friends

For those interested, these are the 12 books recommended by 12 friends for me to read this year. I’ll likely be reading 2 next month since I started late. My first book is actually going to be The Troop by Nick Cutter. What books have your friends recommended for you? Have you read them yet?

2023 National Baseball Poetry Festival

Poetry can favor many topics from the intimate to the very public, but it also can speak to entertainments like baseball. Baseball Bard will host the First Annual National Baseball Poetry Festival April 28-30, 2023 at Polar Park in Worcester, Massachusetts. The park is the official home of the Worcester Red Sox (Triple-A Affiliate of […]

Mailbox Monday #719

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Songs in E— by Dan Brady

Source: Poet Paperback, 80 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Songs in E— by Dan Brady, winner of the Barclay Prize for Poetry, offers reimagined love poems from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning in which Sonnets from the Portuguese and “One Word More” were run through an unreliable internet translator into Portuguese and back […]

I’d Rather Be Called a Nerd by Dominic “Nerd” McDonald

Source: Publisher Paperback, 66 pgs. I am an Amazon Affilate I’d Rather Be Called a Nerd by Dominic “Nerd” McDonald, winner of the 2022 DC Poet Project, is a memoir in poems exposing what it means to be an academic Black man in America and upend the expectations of the Black community. The collection melds […]

Call Me Spes by Sara Cahill Marron

Source: the poet Paperback, 150 pgs I am an Amazon Affiliate Call Me Spes by Sara Cahill Marron is a collection I hesitated to read and review because I was intimidated by the use of an IOS system in a phone. I am not a technophobe, but I’m also less tech-savvy than I should be. […]

Mailbox Monday #718

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has its own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Regional Poetry Contest Alert: Enoch Pratt Library Poetry Contest & Gaithersburg Book Festival High School Poetry Contest

Little Patuxent Review and Enoch Pratt Free Library again are sponsoring the Maryland poetry contest. This contest is open to those in Maryland who are 18 years old and up. Deadline: March 1 Submission Guidelines are here. Good Luck! Once again the local Gaithersburg Book Festival is hosting its high school poetry contest. The contest […]