Author: LRR

This year the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program will feature former U.S. poet laureate and 2011 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her collection The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Kay Ryan. Though Ryan did not publish her first book until she was forty years old her work has earned…

1. You use those golden words you picked up from class, like juxtapose and dichotomy, way too frequently in everyday conversations, like a phone call with your mother who’s clearly not impressed. 2. You talk about famous writers like you know them personally, the way Matt Damon’s character in Good…

Nothing beats writing to a good soundtrack.  Great songs have gotten me through the worst days of my life, and have complimented some of my best moments.  I might carry a pen and notebook with me almost everywhere, but I am absolutely addicted to my iPod. I have a ridiculous…

  The first time I read Jane Eyre was through Project Gutenberg, on my laptop. My friends all asked how I could read for that long on a computer screen; I replied that it did not bother me, that I was used to it because I prefer to read for…

A friend of mine is spending the year in Paris, and so, has been stoking my jealousy by reminding me how much literature and how many literary landmarks abound across the European continent.  Most recently, she told me about Selexyz Dominicanen, a 13th century gothic church that has been converted…

Check out our new video, Long River Review Is, and don’t forget to come to the release party.  It’s April 28th, at 6 pm in the UConn Co-op.   Long River Review Is…

Today I had a wonderful experience at the Uconn Co-op. I walked in to get myself a bottle of water and left with three brand new books. Here’s how it happened : Laughter. Attracted inside by voices and celebration, I wandered through the little aisles for what seemed like days,…