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Notables, notables, notables. The end-of-the-year lists are out causing heartbreak, consternation, confusion and outrage for some, including for this book critic who cringes when these lists of titles exclude any

Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, Cinco Puntos Press, 2011. Edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black & Michael Northen Bartlett’s preface and Northen’s essay “A Short History

Woodnote, Bear Star Press, 2011. Christine Deavel was born in North Manchester, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana University and the University of Iowa. She is co-owner of Open Books: A

Photo Credit: Nell Campbell Ocotillo Dreams, Bilingual Press, 2011. Melinda Palacio holds two degrees in Comparative Literature: a B.A. from UC Berkeley and an M.A. from UC Santa Cruz. A

The brainchild of a group of Oberlin College alumni, Full Stop launched earlier this year and has since featured a host of intelligent reviews, interviews, and roundtables, with a focus

Last Seen, University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Jacqueline Jones LaMon is associate professor of English and director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Adelphi University. She is the

NBCC member John Madera reports on March 8 event with NBCC biography and autobiography finalists in conversation with biography committee chair Eric Banks and autobiography committee co-chair Rigoberto González, with biography