Books, books, and talking about them.
Books, books, and talking about them,
and trolleying home to a third floor
walk-up and looking out the window
---Elizabeth Alexander
from American Sublime
Bookshelf

fiction
A Mercy, by Toni Morrison
If Sons, Then Heirs by Lorene Carey
non-fiction
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
poetry
Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars
Ross Gay's Bringing The Shovel Down
Jean Valentine's Break The Glass