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“There have been many times in my life when I felt the destruction of the natural world within my body. This was, however, the first time I felt my emotional state was fully manifest. I wanted to live in that space of fire for as long as possible, to surrender myself.” Poet Claudia Savage spoke with us about her new book, BRUISING CONTINENTS (Spuyten Duyvil Press) for .

Late Night Library | Claudia F. Savage: Bruising Continents Claudia F. Savage: Bruising Continents In Bruising Continents (Spuyten Duyvil Press), poet Claudia F. Savage charts an intimate personal landscape of love and longing with the unflinching resolve of an early explorer venturing into the unknown. Natural imagery abounds as Savage’s narrator gathers th...

HUGE congratulations to Tyehimba Jess, winner of the 2017 Prize in poetry for OLIO.

Late Night Library | Tyehimba Jess – Olio

"I was curious about the events that stand out in a person’s memory for often obscure, private reasons—not the births, weddings, deaths, but the less heralded moments—and how, when we think of the past, the time spanning between those events is often cloudy and vague and fades into the background. Why does a particular memory surface, and not another, when you think of this or that time?" Paula Whyman discusses her debut collection of linked stories, YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER, with interviewer Corinne Gould for this week's

Paula Whyman: You May See a Stranger - Late Night Library I’m daydreaming about a white box truck. And look, it has just pulled into my driveway. It could be the very one they talked about last night on the news, the one we’re supposed to watch out for and worry about. Except, on the side of this truck there’s a picture of a horse, acontinue reading →