Brooklyn + Poets + Moms! April 5, 2013: The doorbell rings. Amanda’s here, with Beckett (4) and Scarlett (3 months). We lug the kids and their attendant gear up three flights of stairs. As soon as we’re all settled inside, the apartment feels smaller and things get hectic. The boys—Beckett and my son, Caleb (2)—play with Legos, tussling a bit over who gets what colors. Mandy [...] by Laura Sims

Stefania Heim Wins Switchback Books’s 2012 Gatewood Prize October 31, 2012: Good news coming out of Switchback Books today: Brenda Shaughnessy has chosen Stefania Heim's A Table that Goes on for Miles as the winner of this year's Gatewood Prize. A little about Stefania: Stefania Heim holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and is completing a PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, writing a [...] by Harriet Staff