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Both letters and numbers are muses for poet Danielle Hanson in ‘The Night Is What It Eats’
A poem has more in common with a spreadsheet of numbers than you might think. Both involve a sort of imaginative problem-solving and…
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Review/interview: Stevie Nicks poetry collection is a layered ode to song and writer
The first poem of the Stevie Nicks poetry collection, White Winged Doves — titled “Melodia Maleficarum” (The Song of Witches) by Shylah Addante…
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Spoke & Word puts storytelling in motion during Atlanta Cycling Festival
On a hot, early September afternoon, six fully grown men stood atop a long-capped landfill in Southeast Atlanta. Our presence was not, strictly…
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Atlanta metro graduate programs inspire global writers to pen Southern literature
After completing the first draft of her debut novel, Sleight, as a dissertation project at the University of Georgia, novelist and Ph.D. graduate…
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Josh Russell’s essay collection ‘Commonplaces’ connects life challenges with everyday beauty
In college at the University of Maryland, Atlanta author Josh Russell used to make photocopies of poems that he read in literary magazines…
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Review: Kylie Lee Baker’s ‘Japanese Gothic’ stokes dread, salves with off-kilter beauty
Last year, Atlanta author Kylie Lee Baker released her first horror novel, Bat Eater and other Names for Cora Zeng, to wide acclaim.…
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Beloved East Atlanta bookstore Bookish reopens after flood
Walking into East Atlanta’s Bookish, you’d never guess it had been closed for flooding one week earlier. The shelves were packed with books,…
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Review: Catrakilis’ ‘Under an African Sky’ has makings of a cohesive story, ends up fragmented
Atlanta author Elene Catrakilis’ debut novel, Under an African Sky (Belvedere House, March 10) takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the end…
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Poet Amy Pence’s lyrical novel ‘Yellow’ explores Jungian ideas through a Southern lens
During Hurricane Irma in 2017, a 90-foot oak tree split and fell into the middle of Amy Pence’s cottage in the old fishing…
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The 2026 Spring Arts Preview: Our picks in Books
Whatever your literary tastes are, Georgia authors have them covered in early 2026. From historical nonfiction to rowdy rom-coms, clear a space on…
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