“Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston” by Emily Lordi c.2026, Mariner $32.00 336 pages Round and round they go in your head. Snippets of tunes, entire songs you loved decades ago, dance moves you copied and videos you never missed. Those things were essential to your youth, they […]
The nation’s largest poetry festival returns to NJPAC Oct. 15–17, bringing more than 100 poets, free community events, workshops and performances to Newark as the city welcomes its first poet laureate, Mia X.
NJ poets hope to revive a program that has been abolished since 2003.
Author and retired judge Lise Pearlman draws on archival research and interviews with Newton’s relatives to examine the personal roots of his politics, activism and complicated legacy.
The Story of An American Civil Rights Pioneer” by Timothy B. Tyson & Mary D. Williams
