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7 rare books to celebrate the solar eclipse
Mon, 25 Mar 2024
Although you can’t technically check out these volumes—ranging from a medieval anthology to a mid-20th century how-to guide—they’re still worth ‘checking out.’
Continue ReadingA poet’s meditation on loss, light, and legacy
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
Still Falling, English professor Jennifer Grotz’s fourth collection of poems, illuminates the connection between art and time.
Continue ReadingProvoking and coping through light verse
Tue, 12 Dec 2023
Rochester English instructor ‘explores the lighter side of dark times’ with her latest collection of poems.
Continue ReadingHow Nobel Prize–winning author Jon Fosse was found in translation
Fri, 06 Oct 2023
Open Letter’s Chad Post on discovering the Norwegian author for English audiences—and the importance of foreign translation presses today.
Continue ReadingWhen fictional children become stranger things
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.
Continue ReadingQuestions of character and motives drive professor’s new novel
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
In Stephen Schottenfeld’s This Room Is Made of Noise, a down-on-his-luck handyman befriends an elderly widow of means. What’s a reader to think?
Continue ReadingPlutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown
Wed, 31 Aug 2022
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.
Continue ReadingJames Longenbach ‘made a central and rich place for poetry’ at Rochester
Tue, 16 Aug 2022
The English professor and acclaimed poet devoted his life’s work to studying, teaching, and writing poetry.
Continue ReadingIs this the year you’re going to read Ulysses by James Joyce?
Mon, 06 Jun 2022
Here are a few things to know about the literary masterpiece that has exhilarated and confounded its readers for 100 years.
Continue ReadingLocal publisher’s papers to live at Rochester
Tue, 12 Apr 2022
The Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation has acquired a 30-year writing and editing archive from author, poet, and BOA Edition, Ltd. publisher Peter Conners.
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