Nina’s Five Luminaries for National Poetry Month

Talented poets with a stellar cast, in some cases literally. From top to bottom, Condoleezza's workouts, Captain Ahab's Writing Advice, the Universe's Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Zeus' goth club jaunt and the most surreal yet pragmatic fatherly advice you'd ever get.

Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney (Northwestern University Press, $15.95)

The Republic of Poetry by Martin Espada (W.W. Norton, $13.95)

Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf, $15)

T-Bone Series by Quincy Scott Jones (Whirlwind Press, $12)

Father Said by Hal Sirowitz (Soft Skull Press, $23)

Nina Jones, April 2012

Nina's Five in a Flash

In honor of our micro-month, five books that truly leap in small spaces.

Haywire by Thaddeus Rutkowski (Starcherone Books, $18)

Variety of Disturbance: Stories by Lydia Davis (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $14)

Running In the Family by Michael Ondaatje (Vintage, $15)
[Note: the bookstore is holding a discussion of Running in the Family tonight, as part of our Life Stories Book Group!]

House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Vintage, $11)

Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel (Harper Perennial, $13.99)

February 2012, Nina Jones