PAM Ayres is a crowd-pleaser, in the nicest possible way. Though she had a cold, she was an ebullient, cheerful presence. I am glad she wasn’t just being interviewed on stage (the occasion marked the ...
"Poems I Wrote When No One Was Looking," and the other poetry books I’ve written since. Now, I tend to write funny rhyming poems. But as I tell kids at school visits, not all poems rhyme and not ...
Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he ...
The specific seething spareness of the New England said/unsaid lives in Abbie Kiefer’s debut collection of poetry, “Certain Shelter” (June Road). Death hovers, “bodies stop being,” as ...