no caps, only lower-case letters, please

rupi kaur paved the road for self-publishing poets with her record-breaking poetry book, milk and honey as well as her use of lower-case lettering. andrews mcmeel publishing took notice and now publishes some of these best-selling, self-publishing poets, including rupi kaur's new book, home body.

For more info on her new book, visit https://rupikaur.com/books/home-body/

The Queen's Gambit references a poet and her most famous poem

 

Netflix's super smash hit, The Queen's Gambit has reinvigorated an interest in chess (and books about playing), incorporates a well-known poem by a famous female English poet (Stevie Smith's Not Waving But Drowning) and displays girl power, the good and bad, to new heights!

To read Not Waving But Drowning, visit https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-but-drowning

A big thanks to Yahoo's Insider for https://news.yahoo.com/17-details-might-missed-queens-231027038.html

A masterpiece indeed!

 

Our beloved PBS premiered Masterpiece Theatre in the winter of 1971, bringing us Poldark, The Prime Suspect, Downton Abbey, Victoria and so much more. This book pays tribute to the best of the best of television programming and how lucky we are for this book and for PBS. 

Get your copy of Masterpiece: America's 50-Year-Old Love Affair with British Television Drama by Nancy West at https://shop.pbs.org/WC9752.html

PBS also offers a streaming pass for viewers called Passport. To get Passport and support PBS, visit https://www.thirteen.org/passport/

Libraries make Reader's Digest list for cheesy pickup lines

 

Reader's Digest posts top 50 fun and cheesy pickup lines, and libraries make the cut at https://www.rd.com/list/cheesy-pickup-lines/

I Would Leave Me If I Could. What? Oh, it's Halsey's new poetry book!

Songwriter and singer Halsey releases her first poetry book, I Would Leave Me If I Could at https://www.halseymusicstore.com/products/i-would-leave-me-if-i-could.