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Due to issues with Substack yesterday afternoon, we were unable to get our newsletter out. Let’s blame it on yet another winter storm that rolled through our neck of the woods yesterday. If you’re snowed in or dealing with storms, let us help you while away the hours safely with some great literature.
Let’s kick it off with something you can listen to! Terrain.org has brought its podcast, curated by Miranda Perrone, back after a brief hiatus. Learn more about their podcast and latest episode here. You can also learn more about Under the Madness Magazine in our New Lit on the Block series. The journal began in the summer of 2021 and is created by and for young writers ages 13 through 19.
On the Magazine Stand discover our complete list of alternative and literary magazines with new issues for the month of February 2023. Highlighted issues include Issue 34.2 of The Gettysburg Review which features paintings by Tidawhitney Lek, and writing by Kate Jayroe, Samuel Ligon, Margaret Gibson, Philip Schultz, and more.
If you love discovering new books, you can enjoy our full list of new and forthcoming titles received from indie and university presses during the month of February. To see more information about several of these titles, don’t forget to check out our Book Stand.
Recently featured, discover Evie Shockley’s latest poetry collection suddenly we which will be released next month. Shockley “mobilizes visual art, sound, and multi-layered language to chart routes toward openings for the collective dreaming of a more capacious ‘we.’” Also due out in March is Blair Austin’s Dioramas which was winner of the Dzanc Prize for Fiction. The book tells of a city far in the future, in a society that has come through a great upheaval.
Published in 2022, but still very much relevant, discover Kent Roach’s Canadian Policing: Why and How it Must Change which is a critical examination of Canadian policing from its colonial origins to its response to the February 2022 blockades and occupations. Brooklyn writer and educator Tony Iantosca’s Crisis Inquiry is a collection of poems in three parts that unsettles the lyric poem from within its constraints.
Baron Wormser’s eleventh poetry collection, The History Hotel, is due out in March 2023 and offers a wide range of subjects and imaginative approaches his readers have come to expect. Andrew Kaufman’s The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide is the only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and is a work of nonfictional poetry.
Carolyn Dekker’s North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac is a memoir-in-essays about teaching and family life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Music for Ghosts by Christopher Locke is a collection of poems that serve as a visceral testament to youth and hubris, erasure and forgiveness. Tracy Youngblom’s second full-length collection of poetry, Boy is a sequence of poems that explores how death and loss color memory and influence the ways family members relate to each other and to their shared history.
Stop by the Book Stand throughout the week to discover even more titles from Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Yolanda Gallardo, Rebekah Anderson, Kate Brandt, Zeb Hogan and Stefan Lovgren, Alan Botsford, Rashi Rohatgi, Luke Hankins, María Negroni, and Marilyn Fox and Nancye McCrary.
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Get even more reading recommendations from our reviewers. Kevin Brown dives into Lauren Fleshman’s Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World in which Fleshman “conveys the less-clear, more-frequent ways in which a patriarchal sport and society ignore women’s potential.” Denise Hill enjoys Ellen O’Grady’s Magic Nation #1 which “creates a kind of soft invitation for viewers to participate in completing the pictures, bringing their own imaginations into play.”
Kevin Brown believes Daniel Levitin in Successful Aging “provides readers with practical, research-based techniques form moving into one’s sixties, seventies, and beyond.
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