Stop! Look! Listen! S. E. Chapman’s Reading Recommendation
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For my birthday this year, I bought Michael Ondaatje’s A Year of Last Things.
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For my birthday this year, I bought Michael Ondaatje’s A Year of Last Things.
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Notes on Ada Lea’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece”
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I am a slow reader and I am currently ambling through The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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A mostly instrumental form of music like jazz isn’t the most immediate artistic vehicle for political engagement.
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Roadrunner Roadrunner / going faster miles an hour
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Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea is my favourite esoteric fantasy, where stories are sacred, written on rose petals, and sentences leave you breathless.
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As someone whose mother always made her bring a valentine for every child in the class, how can I choose just one book from among my recent reads?
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In the acknowledgements section of Tolu Oloruntoba’s celebrated collection, The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest Press, 2021), he thanks American poet Kimiko Hahn for two profound words of advice: “risk clarity.” He says (rather modestly) that he knows he
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Ask me about my favourite record and I’ll tell you it’s The Nightfly
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I have to be careful as a reader of poetry to allow enough room for the diversity of voices and approaches. For instance, very early on I was struck, convinced, intoxicated with Jack Gilbert's work.