Category: poets

Friday Five: Labor Day weekend reads

Happy weekend, readers, and happy Labor Day weekend to my fellow U.S. Americans. I hope you’re all able to get some down time this weekend, unless you, like me, are taking part in Jami Attenberg’s Mini 1000 writing exercise this weekend, in which case, I hope your labors are fruitful.

If you’re in need of some fresh reading material to wind down your summer and move into fall, here are five goodies I’ve selected just for you:

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Friday Five: recent reads

Five things that caught my eye recently:

  1. Inspiration in a flash (or fifty). Read some of the stories selected for the Wigleaf top 50 2024 longlist of flash fictions. Congratulations to the authors who made this list!
  2. The century’s 100 best books, according to the New York Times (gift link).
  3. How to doomproof your reading. Good stuff from Junot Diaz’s StoryWorlds Substack.
  4. Happy five-year anniversary to one of my favorite online poetry journals, Sparks of Calliope. And in case you missed it, here’s my April 2024 Friday Five interview with editor Randal Burd.
  5. Enjoy this collection of summer-y poems by Mary Oliver, William Carlos Williams, Derek Walcot, and others, courtesy of Maya C. Popa.

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