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Saturday, 1 March 2025
  • Women's History Month (March 1-31)

    Saturday, 1 March 2025

Tuesday, 11 March 2025
  • Black California Gold, by Wendy M. Thompson

    Tuesday, 11 March 2025

    In this arresting debut poetry collection, Thompson traces the past and present of California’s Bay Area, exploring themes of family, migration, girlhood, and identity against a backdrop of urban redevelopment, advanced gentrification, and the erasure of Black communities. Read more.

Tuesday, 1 April 2025
  • National Poetry Month (April 1-30)

    Tuesday, 1 April 2025

    Each year the month of April is set aside as National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their craft. Various events are held throughout the month by the Academy of American Poets and other poetry organizations.

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
  • Charles Johnson's "General History of the Pyrates" and Global Commerce, by Noel Chevalier

    Tuesday, 15 April 2025

    This study explores how General History of the Pyrates was at the heart of early eighteenth-century British debates about commerce, colonialism, and law. Examining how pirates are depicted as both monsters and Great Men, Noel Chevalier untangles the contradictions within a Britain emerging as a colonial superpower, where ruthlessness and ambition were both feared and praised. Read more.

  • Revisiting Richardson, edited by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer

    Tuesday, 15 April 2025

    In these lively and engaging essays, contributors examine historically overlooked works, provide new readings of Richardson's best-known novels Pamela and Clarissa, and stake a serious claim for the importance of his final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. Diverse, inventive, and provocative, these essays demonstrate the complexity, relevance, and surprising legacies of Richardson’s novels and characters—finding traces in post-conceptual poetry, detective fiction, and in the fantasies of historical romance. Read more.