Trust the Torch!

Of the 179 poetry books sold last year at Read Between the Lynes in Woodstock, 51 were copies of “Call Us What We Carry,” by Amanda Gorman, who read one of her poems at the presidential inaugural in 2021.

By Jan BosmanPoet Naomi Shihab Nye could not have defined 2021 any better than this excerpt from her poem, “Burning the Old Year”:So much of any year is flammable:lists of […]

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