How to Mingle at a Book Thing

Find your social buoys, practice your talking points, and if all else fails, return to the topic of shoes.
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Find your social buoys, practice your talking points, and if all else fails, return to the topic of shoes.
The transcription of Voca, an audiovisual archive of more than twelve thousand poetry recordings, makes literary history accessible to poets, critics, scholars, and the general public.
A poet shares how she builds a life around her writing in rural Wisconsin, where literary community takes surprising—and sometimes amusing—forms. She finds both struggle and abundance in her chosen path.
Curious about the pleasures and sounds of nonliterary language, author Rita Bullwinkel has created Oral Florist, an online sound library in which artists and writers read recipes, user manuals, and other encountered texts.