Haverford • 26th August 2026

Maine's newest poet laureate

Dawn Potter was a young, overwhelmed mother living in rural Maine when she found a novel way to claim her creative life: writing short poems on scraps of paper that she rested against her baby's back as he lay in the grass or sat on her lap.

The Christian Science Monitor • 6th June 2024

So you want to win the New Yorker caption contest?

It’s hard to win The New Yorker magazine’s cartoon caption contest. If you enter, it’s unlikely that your caption will be either a finalist or a winner. But that doesn’t deter an average of 5,000 people nearly every week from submitting their ideas for the captionless drawing that appears in each issue.

The Christian Science Monitor • 2nd January 2024

Brooklyn writers explain the borough's allure

Where writers once decamped for Manhattan’s bigger and brighter lights, it’s not unusual to bump into your favorite author here. And though the borough is gentrifying and tenement are fading, those 77 neighborhoods still provide a sense of identity and personality in a metropolis where it’s easy to feel alone.

The Christian Science Monitor • 1st October 2023

Young, Black & Lit

What if you went to the bookstore and saw no one on the shelves who looked like you? One couple is addressing
that deficit for young Black children, supporting literacy and identity.

• 31st August 2023

Four new summer reads

From Dave Berry to an insider's view of the CIA, these books are sure to inform and entertain.

30th May 2023

Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Stanford University professor Sarah Derbew is one of the few Black Classics professors in the U.S. Her recent book takes a more nuanced look at Blackness in Antiquity.

Haverford • 11th March 2022

Fiction from a Wall Street Insider

Filled with references to Shakespeare, Kipling, and Graham Greene, this isn't exactly the book you’d expect from the founder of one of Asia’s largest private equity firms.

Grinnell College • 11th March 2022

On the vaccination trail with investigative reporter David Heath

Pulitzer finalist David Heath tells the story of the small group of scientists who spent years researching vaccine technology.

Haverford • 25th February 2022

Living with the end in mind

Barbara Becker '89 has written a touching and exquisitely insightful tribute to patients she cared for in hospice, as well as her mentors, friends and family.

12th March 2022

Kid Lit!

From Paddington Bear to Bad Kitty, authors and illustrators talk about their latest works.

3rd January 2023

Torah Time Travel

Retired attorney finds success writing biblical Kid Lit

Grinnell College • 18th March 2022

New Yorker cartoonist releases his first graphic novel

Ken Krimstein writes and draws Hannah Arendt.

Continuum • 13th March 2022

His city, his home

Stuart Dybek tells Chicago stories in his poetry and fiction.