Author: Jay Ruud
William Carlos Williams’ “Spring and All: The Red Wheel Barrow”
Sylvia Plath’s “The Applicant”
Ted Hughes’ “The Thought Fox”
Billy Collins’ “Note to J. Alfred Prufrock”
Louise Glück’s “Mock Orange”
How Beautiful We Were
How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue (2021) The success of her first novel, Behold the Dreamers, which won the PENN/Faulkner Award for 2016, made her follow-up book, How Beautiful We Were, one of the most anticipated books of 2021. Mbue was born in Cameroon and came to the United States to earn a B.A. from Rutgers,… Continue reading How Beautiful We Were
