Did a previous reader of my library copy of “Red Comet,” the Sylvia Plath biography, bet $2 that I wouldn’t get to page 600? I’ll take that bet.
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Poem in Your Pocket Day: All you need is a poem. And a pocket.
Not ready for Poem in Your Pocket Day? Relax. All you need is a favorite poem. The pocket is optional. Here’s all you need for the annual celebration of poetry.
Area writers score in Oregon Book Awards nominations
Mid-valley authors, OSU Press, win nominations for nonfiction, children’s literature. Winners will be announced at an April 25 ceremony.
Your Weekend Reader for Jan. 1-2
Happy New Year! Here's hoping that 2022 brings you nothing but good news -- and, now, let me set about breaking that particular resolution. (I promise this edition gets happier as it goes along --...
“How the Word is Passed:” An essential tour of slavery
Recommended reading: Clint Smith's "How the Word is Passed," in which Smith -- a poet and a staff writer at The Atlantic -- leads a tour of a half-dozen or so sites important, in some way, to the...
Put a “Poem in Your Pocket”
Thursday is Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual celebration of poetry that typically comes near the end of National Poetry Month (which is, of course, April, the cruelest month). The title of the...
My shameful list of library holds
I probably should say this first: I love the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library and am counting the days until we can gather again to wander through its shelves or perhaps participate once again...
‘Hidden Valley Road’ probes a family’s battle with schizophrenia
Robert Kolker’s dazzling nonfiction work is clear-eyed, empathetic, riveting.