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2022 in Review

Disbound by Hajar Hussaini

The Art of Revision: The Last Word by Peter Ho Davies

Mailbox Monday #714

Happy Holidays!

Breaking the Blank by Dwayne Lawson-Brown and Rebecca Bishophall

Mailbox Monday #713

Seed Celestial by Sara R. Burnett

Some Days the Bird by Heather Bourbeau and Anne Casey

Giveaway: How to Speak Animal by Dr. Gabby Wild

Mailbox Monday #712

Everything Is Normal Here by Alison Palmer

I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir by Fran Abrams

Mailbox Monday #711

Iron into Flower by Yvette Neisser

Book Launch: I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir by Fran Abrams on Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Md.

Watchman, What of the Night? by W. Luther Jett

Mailbox Monday #710

Happy Thanksgiving

Sway by Tricia Johnson

Accomplished by Amanda Quain (audio)

Mailbox Monday #709

Fixed Star by Suzanne Frischkorn

Guest Post: Daydreaming Is the Thing by Mary Salisbury, author of Side Effects of Wanting

Mailbox Monday #708

Veterans Day 2022

Mailbox Monday #707

Brave Like Mom by Monica Acker

Why We Never Visited the Elms by Marianne Szlyk

Mailbox Monday #706

Live Encounters 13th Anniversary Edition Is Out

Love the Dark Days by Ira Mathur

Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here by Sara Cahill Marron

Mailbox Monday #705

The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu (audio)

Fairy Tale by Stephen King (audio)

A Beginner's Guide to Being Human by Matt Forrest Esenwine, illustrated by Andre Ceolin

Mailbox Monday #704

Rooted and Winged by Luanne Castle

Summonings by Raena Shirali

Dear Wild Child by Wallace J. Nichols and Wallace Grayce Nichols, illustrated by Drew Beckmeyer

Mailbox Monday #703

The Attic on Queen Street by Karen White

My Dog, Hen by David Mackintosh

Mailbox Monday #702

Excerpt: Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flower

Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun

The New Gods by William O'Daly

Mailbox Monday #701

Falling Leaves: An Interfaith Anthology on the Topic of Consolation and Loss edited by Susan Meehan and Robert Bettmann

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

Run (Book One) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell

Mailbox Monday #700

I Am Coco: The Life of Coco Chanel by Isabel Pin

Break Shot: My First 21 Years by James Taylor (Audio)

More Bedtime Stories for Cynics Presented by Nick Offerman (Audio)

Mailbox Monday #699

New: Poetic Lines with Elizabeth Lund and Me

Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni

The Power of Architecture by Annette Roeder, illustrated by Pamela Baron

Guest Post: Lari O'Dell, author of Mr. Darcy's Phoenix

Mailbox Monday #698

HAIR: From Moptops to Mohicans, Afros to Cornrows by Katja Spitzer

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

Mailbox Monday #697

Final Week: Amanda Gorman’s Call Us What We Carry Read-a-Long

All the Rivers Flow into the Sea and Other Stories by Khanh Ha

Mailbox Monday #696

Week Three: Amanda Gorman’s Call Us What We Carry Read-a-Long

Guest Post: Book Signing Horror Story by Khanh Ha

A Room of Your Own by Beth Kephart, Illustrated by Julia Breckenreid

Mailbox Monday #695

Week Two: Amanda Gorman’s Call Us What We Carry Read-a-Long

Birthday Milestones

Admit This to No One by Leslie Pietrzyk

Mailbox Monday #694

Week One: Amanda Gorman's Call Us What We Carry Read-a-Long

Beach Read by Emily Henry (audio)

Guest Post, Excerpt, & Giveaway: A Season of Magic by Sarah Courtney

Mailbox Monday #693

Results & Schedule: Poetry Read-a-Long for August

Just Haven't Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens (audio)

Guest Post: And Silent Left the Place: Tall Texas Tale or Moral Exploration? by Elizabeth Bruce

Mailbox Monday #692

Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

Sarah Rising by Ty Chapman, illustrated by DeAnn Wiley

Mailbox Monday #691

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Poll: August Read-a-Long for Poetry

Mailbox Monday #690

Scale Model of a Country at Dawn by John Sibley Williams

July Already?

Vacay from the Blog

Mailbox Monday #689

The Fervor by Alma Katsu

Mailbox Monday #688

Kill It With Fire by Marianne Bellotti (audio)

Finding Inspiration in Unlikely Places by Eric D. Goodman, author of Wrecks and Ruins

Mailbox Monday #687

With Love From London by Sarah Jio

Mailbox Monday #686

Inventory of Doubts by Landon Godfrey

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

StoryGraph

Mailbox Monday #685

Finding Me by Viola Davis (audio)

Giveaway: Gaithersburg Book Festival 2022 Is a Wrap!

Mailbox Monday #684

May 21: Gaithersburg Book Festival

Memory and Desire by Gregory Luce

The Drowning House by John Sibley Williams

Mailbox Monday #683

The No-Show by Beth O'Leary (audio)

Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane (audio)

The Switch by Beth O'Leary (audio)

Mailbox Monday #682

Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary (audio)

The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary (audio)

Mailbox Monday #681

Sunday, May 1, 11-3 p.m. in Washington D.C.: Literary Hill BookFest

Virtual Poetry Circle: Mary Oliver

Poetry Activity: Blackout Poems

Guest Post: Clarity in Poetry by Shoushan Balian, author of Through the Soul Into Life

Winter at a Summer House by Mary Beth Hines

Challenges While Photographing for Poetry: Himalayas by Jon Meyer, author of Clouds: love poems from above the fray

Mailbox Monday #680

April 24, 4-6 PM: Local D.C. Event: Poetry Reading with Photopoetry by Gordana Gerskovic, Serena Agusto-Cox, and More

April 23, 4 p.m. EST: National Poetry Month Zoom Reading: Poets in the Blogosphere

Virtual Poetry Circle: Earth Day Poems

Guest Post: Publishing Poetry by Kurtis Ebeling, author of Beneath Stretching Pines

Guest Post: Poetry Writing Tips from a Published Poet by D.L. Heather

Poetry Activity: Tanka

Mailbox Monday #679

Virtual Poetry Circle: Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry Events: Roundup of Weekend Poetry Events

Poetry Activity: Limericks

Any Dumb Animal by AE Hines

What Flies Want by Emily Perez

Mailbox Monday #678

Poetry Activity: Cento (Patchwork) Poem

Virtual Poetry Circle: Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry Events: Roundup of Weekend Poetry Events

Surviving Home by Katerina Canyon

Useful Junk by Erika Meitner

Poetry Activity: Texting Poems

Mailbox Monday #677

Local D.C. Event: Gallery Opening of Photopoetry by Gordana Gerskovic, Serena Agusto-Cox, and More

Virtual Poetry Circle: Nikki Giovanni

National Poetry Month 2022

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

Accusing Mr. Darcy by Kelly Miller (audio)

Forces by Lisa Stice

Mailbox Monday #676

Granddaughter of Dust by Laura Williams

Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden

Flowers Grow on Broken Walls by Farena Bajwa

Mailbox Monday #675

Ariadne Awakens: Instructions for the Labyrinth by Laura Costas

Poems From the Asylum by Martha H. Nasch, edited by Janelle Molony and introduced by Jodi Nasch Decker

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman

Mailbox Monday #674

1932 by Karen M. Cox (audio)

So Much of Everything by Jenn Koiter

None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney (audio)

Character Interview & Giveaway: The Grail: The Saving of Elizabeth Darcy by Don Jacobson

Mailbox Monday #673

The Damage Done by Susana H. Case

For Her Name's Sake by Monica Leak

Ashes to Justice by R.E.I.L.

Mailbox Monday #672

Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience edited by Melanie Henderson, Enzo Silon Surin, and Truth Thomas

Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant by Indran Amirthanayagam

Water Shedding by Beth Konkoski

Mailbox Monday #671

Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen

Will by Will Smith (audio)

Your Words, Your World by Louise Bélanger

Mailbox Monday #670

Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron

Kindle Deal & Interview with Syrie James, author of Struck by Love series

When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories by E. Ethelbert Miller

Mailbox Monday #669

Black Under by Ashanti Anderson

National Geographic Readers: Kamala Harris (Level 2) by Tonya K. Grant

Mailbox Monday #668

National Geographic Readers: Stacey Abrams (Level 2) by Melissa H. Mwai

Red Widow by Alma Katsu (audio)

Model Home by Jay Hall Carpenter

Mailbox Monday #667

Giveaway & Interview with Mimi Matthews, author of The Siren of Sussex

The Last Night in London by Karen White

Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday

Mailbox Monday #666

Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Collection by Tara Campbell

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl (audio)

Mailbox Monday #665

From Ashes to Heiresses by Renata McMann and Summer Hanford (audio)

Woodrow on the Bench by Jenna Blum

Best Books of 2021

Mailbox Monday #664