Book Talk by the Sea

Graphic novels as a form might be associated more heavily with action and comedy than with emotion, but some recent additions to our...

April is a bounteous month, what with National Poetry Month, National Library Week, and now... Earth Day! Janisse Ray is best known for...

Milkweed Editions has been responsible for publishing a number of remarkably distinct and breathtaking debut works over the years, and...

One for poetry itself and one for spring today as we continue to celebrate National Poetry Month at the library. Both of this week's...

A new season has begun, and the Camden Public Library staff is reflecting on some reads from winter as we move on to days marked by a...

In honor of this week's overlap between National Poetry Month and National Library Week, here is a poem from Nikki Giovanni that...

(National Poetry Month poster designed by Brooklyn, NY high school senior Bao Lu) This April marks the 25th annual celebration of...

Sylvia Plath's poetry is often hard to read—if not to interpret, then to stomach. The poet often articulated her suicidal and despondent...

Do you have room for some thoughtful whimsy in your to-read pile? Eley Williams' new novel The Liar's Dictionary joins a growing list of...

Something about the coming of spring has always felt to me incredibly well-suited to poetry, as though it serves as an enchantment,...

In January 2021, Masterpiece Theatre began its 50th anniversary season on PBS, cementing its enduring popularity on American television....

With St. Patrick's Day on the horizon, it seems a good time to share the beautiful work of Dublin-born poet Eavan Boland. Boland's work...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Like any other holiday, March 17th can become gimmicky and commercialized, but there is a strong connection...

There is something of a feeling of simple smallness when looking at a Lucille Clifton poem like "blessing the boats," with its lower case...

This March marks forty years since the first official celebration of Women's History Week in 1981. While it is, and should be, impossible...

As we transition from Black History Month to Women's History Month, the voice of Audre Lorde seems the perfect complement to the moment....

You could skip the ten-page Acknowledgements section of Robert Jones Jr.'s debut novel The Prophets if you find it daunting or mundane;...

Today's Poem of the Week comes from Pulitzer Prize-winning and former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. "An Old Story" is featured in Smith's...

"I had no idea how much these quiet pleasures had retreated from my life while I was rushing around, and now I'm inviting them back in:...

Though hope and gratitude are always necessary to carry us through, we've needed them perhaps more than ever in the last year. Poet Ross...