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Best Books of 2023

Review: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Review: Save What's Left by Elizabeth Castellano

Review: A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex by Regie Cabico

Review: Farhang: Book One by Patrick Woodcock

Interview with Author Eden Robins

Writing and the Funk

Review: Jane and the Final Mystery by Stephanie Barron

Review: Ladyparts by Deborah Copaken

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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (audio)

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

A December to Remember by Jenny Bayliss (audio)

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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

The Wake-Up Call by Beth O'Leary (audio)

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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell

Holly by Stephen King (audio)

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Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (audio)

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Literary Hill BookFest 2023

Dancehall by Tim Stobierski

Inheritance by Taylor Johnson

The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand (audio)

Remembering 9/11

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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

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Guest Post: Being Intentional About the Objects in Your Story by Thushanthi Ponweera

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What Follows by H.R. Webster

The Unempty Spaces Between by Louis Efron

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Guest Post: Heal Your Spirit with Poetry (and a Cup of Coffee) in 30 Seconds by Xueyan

Guest Post, Giveaway & Excerpt: Spells & Shadows by Victoria Kincaid

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Exits by Stephen C. Pollock

Excerpt & Giveaway: Doubt Not, Cousin by Barry S. Richman

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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Words We Might One Day Say by Holly Karapetkova

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The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish by Katya Apekina (audio)

The Last Girl by Rose Solari

Happy 4th!

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (audio)

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Odder by Katherine Applegate

Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

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Sex Work and Other Sins by Julianne King

Happy Place by Emily Henry (audio)

Lilies on the Deathbed of Etain and Other Poems by Oisin Breen

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A Season for Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss (audio)

Searching for the Butterflies You Crushed Last Night by Valax Malum

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Flare Corona by Jeannine Hall Gailey

Gaithersburg Book Festival 2023 Recap

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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Metabolics by Jessica E. Johnson

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield (audio)

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The Other Americans by Laila Lalami (audio)

Road of Bones by Christopher Golden

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Tonight at DiVerse Gaithersburg 7 p.m.: A Night of Poetry

Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan (audio)

Guest Post: The Value of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in the Wake of the Pandemic by Laura Shovan

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Virtual Poetry Circle: Haki R. Madhubuti

National Poetry Month 2023 Comes to an End

Bargaining with the Fall by Alison Palmer

Join Me on May 4 at 7 p.m. for DiVerse Gaithersburg @ Casey Community Center

Her Whole Bright Life by Courtney LeBlanc

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Virtual Poetry Circle: Claudia Emerson

Poetry Activity: Pop Song Turned Shakespearean Sonnet

Lo: Poems by Melissa Crowe

In Kind by Maggie Queeney

Elegies for an Empire by Le Hinton

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Virtual Poetry Circle: Robert Herrick

Poetry Play: Creating a Fill-in Poem

The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras by Fran Abrams

You Cannot Save Here by Tonee Moll

Guest Post and Giveaway: Handsome, Clever, & Rich by Jayne Bamber

Dear Selection Committee by Melissa Studdard

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Virtual Poetry Circle: Audre Lorde

Magnetic Poetry Magic

Dispatches from Frontier Schools by Sarah Beddow

String by Matthew Thorburn

Our Wolves by Luanne Castle

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National Poetry Month 2023

Virtual Poetry Circle: Kenn Nesbitt

Guest Post, Excerpt, and Giveaway: The Sailor’s Rest by Don Jacobson

On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe (audio)

Above Ground by Clint Smith

Guest Post, Excerpt & Giveaway: The Bennets: Providence & Perception by K.C. Cowan

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Sound Fury by Mark Levine

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Twice in a Lifetime by Melissa Baron (audio)

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Spare by Prince Harry (audio)

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Happy Birthday!

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafo (audio)

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Mount Fuji: 36 Sonnets by Jay Hall Carpenter

The Troop by Nick Cutter (audio)

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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (audio)

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Gargoyle Online #4

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Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe by Wayne David Hubbard

Book Lovers by Emily Henry (audio)

The Pause and the Breath by Kwame Sound Daniels

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Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss

Reading Challenge: 12 books recommended by 12 friends

2023 National Baseball Poetry Festival

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Songs in E— by Dan Brady

I'd Rather Be Called a Nerd by Dominic "Nerd" McDonald

Call Me Spes by Sara Cahill Marron

Mailbox Monday #718

Regional Poetry Contest Alert: Enoch Pratt Library Poetry Contest & Gaithersburg Book Festival High School Poetry Contest

Hunters Point by Peter Kageyama

Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air by Ayse Angela Guvenilir, Afeefah Khazi-Syed, Aleena Shabbir, Mariam Dogar, Marwa Abdulhai, and Maisha M. Prome

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Common Grace by Aaron Caycedo-Kimura

Harbinger by Shelley Puhak

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Country of Glass by Sarah Katz

If It Bleeds by Stephen King (audio)

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2023 Poetry Reading Challenge