As National Poetry Month comes to a near end, we thought we’d share with you some recent editor tested, LSP-approved poetry finds. Read on for some recommendations to add to your never-ending to-read book shelf The Sweetness in Soil – Q. Gibson We were so excited to hear that there was new work from LSPMAG favorite Q. Gibson (you can …
As 45 spreads his orange dust of terror in the age of “alternative facts,” we need to arm ourselves with the one thing no one can take from us—knowledge. It is important that we take action in our own communities (e.g. canvassing, marching, donating) but we also need to make ourselves aware of struggles besides our own. We hope that …
My favorite holiday is here, and I love to find spooky stories to read to suit the occasion. The fun thing about these short stories is that they aren’t your typical scary stories. They don’t involve and supernatural beings or undead creatures, which I absolutely love, too. They focus on complex, interesting characters with struggles and conflicts that readers can …
A second installment of our series Cool Girls Read for August 2016! Check out the rest of our series here. The books we’ve recommended we’ve actually read, but this post contains Affiliate links. Read our full disclosure here. I have only reached Season 2 Episode 8 of Game of Thrones, but the rumor of a Jason Momoa return to the show …
This month we’re changing it up a little bit, and writing more of a Reading Roundup version of our feature series we call Cool Girls Read. The last few weeks have been a whirlwind, what with the Olympics, the Lochte Lying scandal, Frank Ocean announcing a new album, then not releasing it when he said he would, then giving it back to us …
Exploring and Celebrating Femininity With Q. Gibson I am a sensitive woman. I feel my feelings intensely. I cry, a lot. This part of me, this tendency toward strong emotion, has been something that I have fought against. At times I have tried to deny it entirely. I know I’m not alone in this, and I see that struggle reflected …
My father had suggested I read Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” on many occasions, but I shrugged off his pleas with the argument that she couldn’t have been that good if that was the only thing she had ever written. I eventually gave in when it was one of the choices for my middle school book report, and because our …
by Brenna Sherrill Confession: I don’t really know who I am without books. Reading has been one of my most definitive and formative hobbies since I became the first kid in my kindergarten class to develop the skill. Now, as a grad student studying literature, reading is both my job and my escape. It wasn’t really until my eighth birthday, …
by Janea Wilson I didn’t start going to “serious” poetry readings until my first university poetry writing class. Sure, I’d gone to open mics and have seen plenty of slam poetry and spoken word, but never to anything I’d considered a literary reading. I had transferred to university wanting to write fiction, but the classes had already filled so poetry was …
Time flies when you’re having fun reading poems (and writing poems) and doing lots of poemy things for National Poetry Month. Be sure to click around the site to read all of our wonderful contributions from writers all over the country. This month’s Cool Girls Read feature is written by Art & Lit / Sex & Love editor Julia Gibson. – …
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