Sometimes I add a very specific book to my TBR list, complete with ISBN and the source of the recommendation or the reason for my curiosity. Sometimes there’s a name added to the list, with no context or details. That’s how it was with Dunya Mikhail, so I started
Kaggsy and Lizzy are hosting this event for the fourth January February (thanks, Reese!) here’s a snapshot of the independently published books I’m reading right now. The first two I ordered from ig Publishing back in December, but there were issues with shipping (coming across the border from the United
On the day that I got my visitor’s card at the library here, I borrowed Marie-Louise Gay’s Mustafa (2018): a children’s story (Gay illustrates, writes, and translates) about a boy who searches for himself, in the space between his old country and his new country. Certains soirs, Mustafa rêve
In the coming year, I don’t know if I will read so many collections or spend time with so many illustrations, but I have enjoyed my 2022 reading so far (partially discussed last week, here). Ai Qing’s Selected Poems (2021), translated by Robert Dorsett, are “characterized by his sincerity, a
Who? Where? “Since 1993 Kegedonce Press has been crafting beautiful books that involve Indigenous Peoples at all levels of production. […] Indigenous owned and operated, Kegedonce is based at Neyaashiinigmiing, on the traditional territory of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. Our owner and Managing Editor is Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm of
