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07/14/2025

⭐ Check out Noah Robie’s review of Oracle Smoke Machine by Christianne Goodwin and Stephen Proski in the Ocean State Review ⭐

https://oceanstatereview.org/2025/07/10/christianne-goodwin-stephen-proski-oracle-smoke-machine/

Noah Robie
Christie Goodwin
Stefan Proski
The Ocean State Review

The notion of seeing—that is, foretelling, seeing beyond—resounds in the collection, beginning with the title, “Oracle Smoke Machine.” Poet and artist assume prophetic personae of antiquity: Goodwin as Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi, the high priestess to Apollo, the god of the sun and poetry....

07/10/2025

“You Should Be Called Beacon: Remembering Danielle Legros Georges” by Jennifer Jean and published by Poetry Foundation

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

07/03/2025

https://www.bostonartreview.com/read/danielle-legros-georges-memorial-dark-room-collective-fallon-murphy

Members of Boston’s poetry and visual arts communities gathered to honor the life of the influential poet, and unearthed the history of the Black poetry collective.

06/23/2025

Our dear friends Christianne Goodwin and Stephen Proski, authors of Oracle Smoke Machine, sporting Staircase in Budapest!

06/19/2025

⭐ Check out Michael McGillicuddy’s review of Archivist Scissors by Anne Waldman on The Ocean State Review ⭐

The self-evident sensuous beauty of Waldman’s poetic word can’t be given by criticism, for, in taking it as my object, I have separated the meaning of the word and the materiality of the word. As soon as I describe her words with different words—different marks, sounds—I’ve subordinated ma...

06/16/2025

Thank you to Al Sherbatov for choosing Archivist Scissors by Anne Waldman as their staff pick for The Columbia Review!

Archivist Scissors | By Anne Waldman | Staircase Books | 59 pp. | $20, softcover The first and only time I had met Anne Waldman was after a reading at DADA, one of my favorite bars in the city. I h…

06/12/2025

“I think at times like these we can turn to poetry to express what we’re feeling in a way perhaps that words just spoken or prose do not quite capture,” said David Leonard, president of BPL. “Danielle did that in many, many ways.”

The Boston Public Library's central branch hosted a posthumous book launch and reading for Danielle Legros Georges, a former Boston poet laureate.

06/12/2025

Thank you to Michael McGillicuddy for writing a review of From the Distances of Sleep by Daniel Tobin. Thank you to Harvard Review for publishing it.

From the Distances of Sleep, the first of Daniel Tobin’s Gloss Arias trilogy, opens with Tobin’s translation of “Matina”—a poem by Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti: I am what illumines me— scintilla of immensity. The poems in From the Distances of Sleep offer the reader a masterful disclo...

06/10/2025

OUT NOW!
Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England by Danielle Legros Georges
staircasebooks.org/acts-of-resistance

Please join us tonight for the Boston book launch.

6pm, Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
Free and open to the public
Registration required via actsofresistance.splashthat.com

06/09/2025

Thank you Nina MacLaughlin for your kind words about Danielle Legros Georges’ chapbook launch tomorrow.

The event is taking place at 6pm. Please register here: https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/683873342406f4370008aa6b

https://ninamaclaughlin.substack.com/p/danielle-legros-georges-prizes-pattern?fbclid=IwY2xjawK0RFRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFpVTg3RG1qUnZoZVR3Z3FWAR7A6IXADdzayKh7L9C44zG1F6lmAVDdiRZ218u4Z5vAawENdFIRu4rMU00cHw_aem_YVPs10jh5y9vkaza6a70CA

New England Literary News

06/07/2025

Today marks the two-year anniversary of Ex Machina by Joan Naviyuk Kane! Join us tonight at her reading with Daniel Tobin and Ed Skoog.

7pm
Friends Meeting in Cambridge
5 Longfellow Park
Free and open to the public

Pictured: Staircase Books editors with Joan Naviyuk Kane at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, MA after the launch of Ex Machina on June 7th, 2023.

06/06/2025

Join us tomorrow for the chapbook launch of From the Distances of Sleep by Daniel Tobin, the first book in Tobin’s GLOSS ARIAS trilogy.

The reading celebrates the 2-year anniversary of Ex Machina by Joan Naviyuk Kane, published by Staircase Books on June 7, 2023.

June 7 at 7pm
Friends Meeting in Cambridge
5 Longfellow Park
Free and open to the public

The photograph depicts Daniel Tobin along the Quincy Shore.