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Earth Song Book Club: Garden Poems

By Rebecca D. Martin 2 Comments

Leafy greens in garden

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Earth Song Book Club: Force of Nature

By Rebecca D. Martin 9 Comments

misty rocky shore

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Earth Song Book Club: The Wild Places

By Rebecca D. Martin 11 Comments

yellow buds in spring trees

In this week’s Earth Song book club, Rebecca Martin considers the power of poems to transport the reader to another place, whether the woodlands or the wilds.

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Earth Song Book Club Announcement

By Rebecca D. Martin 6 Comments

bamboo forest

Rebecca D. Martin announces a new book club discussion of the symphonic nature poem collection edited by Sara Barkat, Earth Song.

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Don’t Ask Why Book Club: From New York to Paris

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

turquoise street

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Don’t Ask Why Book Club: Dolores

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

Sunset on Seine River Paris France

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Book Club Announcement: Don’t Ask Why by Michelle Ortega

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Compagnons dv devoir, paris

Join us for our next book club, discussing poet Michelle Ortega’s chapbook, Don’t Ask Why, beginning in October (domestic violence month).

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Grammar for a Full Life Book Club: On Becoming Less Possessive

By Charity Singleton Craig 6 Comments

Barbary macaque - possessive grammar

Are your possessive pronouns making you hold onto things a little too tightly? Charity Singleton Craig says loosen your grip, in the final installment of Grammar for a Full Life book club.

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Grammar for a Full Life Book Club: Chilling Out on the Grammar Rules

By Charity Singleton Craig 4 Comments

brown squirrel with ears up - chill out grammar rules

In this week’s book club discussion of Grammar for a Full Life, Charity Singleton Craig helps parse when the grammar rules matter, and when we can chill out.

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Book Club Announcement: Grammar for a Full Life

By Charity Singleton Craig 1 Comment

Ducklings at water edge

Join Charity Singleton Craig in our next book club, Grammar for a Full Life, and explore the ways language, and grammar in particular, can enrich our experiences and well-being.

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The Great Gatsby Book Club: Chapters 7-9—Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past

By Tania Runyan 2 Comments

old green motor boat on shore

In the final installment of our The Great Gatsby book club, Tania Runyan explores what it means to be “borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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The Great Gatsby Book Club: Chapters 5 & 6—Dreams and Longing

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starry sky

If it’s about anything, The Great Gatsby is about dreams and longing. But does Jay Gatsby cherish the dream of Daisy more than Daisy herself?

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Book Club: The Great Gatsby Chapter 3 & 4—Mystery, Contradiction and Switch-Ups

By Tania Runyan 2 Comments

Vintage room with woman at window

Chapters 3 and 4 of The Great Gatsby are full of mystery, contradictions and linguistic switch-ups as the books themes begin to take shape.

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Book Club: Meet the Great Gatsby Characters—Couches Included!

By Tania Runyan 10 Comments

Gatsby Mansion Long Island

In the first installment of our book club, Tania Runyan introduces The Great Gatsby characters—human and otherwise—and invites readers to a Gatsby sestina.

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National Poetry Month: Giving Gatsby the Green Light

By Tania Runyan 20 Comments

Gatsby Kindle on Table

This National Poetry Month, join Tania Runyan to take a poetic twist on Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in our in our new book club.

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Book Club Announcement: The Reindeer Chronicles

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Winter sunrise over bare trees for Reindeer Chronicles book club

We start our 2021 book club season with a title to help us work with the language of crisis and stories of possibility in the Reindeer Chronicles by Judith D. Schwartz.

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Winter Stars Book Club: Comedy – “Auras in Suburbia”

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Winter Stars Auras in Suburbia

In the final discussion of Sonia Barkat’s collection of 10-minute plays, Callie Feyen laughs along with swooshing trench coats and seafood hedges in the comedy “Auras in Suburbia.”

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Winter Stars Book Club: Fantasy – “To The Shadows We Return”

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Winter Stars dark flower

In this week’s book club discussion of the short plays in Sonia Barkat’s Winter Stars, Callie Feyen considers the complexities of love and friendship in the fantasy play, “To the Shadows We Return.”

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Winter Stars Book Club: Tragedy – Winter Stars

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Hot springs winter stars book club

In the opening discussion of Sonia Barkat’s collection of 10-minute plays, Winter Stars, Callie Feyen unfolds the epic battle between the Oak and Holly kings.

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Resilient Book Club: Part 4—Relating

By Laura Boggess 2 Comments

two wooly sheep cuddling

In the final discussion in our book club of Resilient by Rick Hanson, Laura Boggess leads us in a conversation about Relating, and our inner strengths of courage, aspiration, and generosity.

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