How did I not know that Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming was a book in verse?! Highly awarded, this memoir (in verse!) describes the author’s childhood in the 1960’s and ’70s in Iowa, South Carolina, and Brooklyn. Woodson paints portraits of places and people with spare-yet-lush poetic language. Each poem could stand alone, some moreso…Continue reading Book review: Brown Girl Dreaming
Tag: women’s lit
Book review: Firebug
It is so exciting to read books by somebody I know! Lish and I attended UNO together, graduating in the same year. We never shared a class, but we did hang out with many of the same people and heard each other read around New Orleans. I always admired Lish’s ability to create dark, magical…Continue reading Book review: Firebug
Book review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
I did something bad last night. I stayed up really late to finish Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Yeah, as vices go, reading until the wee hours is probably not so bad. Occupational hazard. Anyway, here’s my more-or-less professional take on this latest installment in the Potterverse. Over the summer, I finished rereading all seven Harry…Continue reading Book review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Happy National Poetry Month!
We’re celebrating at Literary Mama! Five fresh poems contemplate the writer’s life, from creating our own language, watching our children make their mark, to reimagining a poetic (and cultural) icon. This group speaks to my heart; I am always partial to writing about writing. Alphabet for the Stay-at-Home Parent by Jennifer O’Grady The body’s deepest…Continue reading Happy National Poetry Month!
Poems to love
This February’s poetry on Literary Mama seeks the sublime in the everyday. In “A Good Day,” Heather Taylor Johnson asks, “Are you aware outside the sun yawns?” Ashleigh Brown explains in “Cold Coffee” that “A woman drinks cold coffee because / the daily prayers of tangled laundry and crumpled homework are / sacred.”
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