This is Savidge Library, which stocks a lot of MacDowell Fellows' works, which not only include books, but films on DVD and tape, music scores, audio tapes and CDs, and lots more besides. It's lovely and cosy inside, with a big old rug, fireplace, reading lamps, pews, and snuggly reading chairs. Many presentations have taken place here, including mine. It is also one of my favourite places 'on-campus', apart from the dining room and my studio.

Below is the list of books I had on my bedside table during my stay. Some I'd finished quickly, while others I'm still savouring. The journals were a particular treat for me, as they're pretty much inaccessible without a subscription:

MacDowell Reading Immersion List

• Jubilat [journal]
  
• Tina Chang's Half-Lit Houses
  
• Nick Carbó's El Grupo McDonald's ♥
  
• Spoon River [journal]
  
• Fence [journal]
  
• Kenny Fries' Desert Walking
  
• Beth Ann Fennelly's Tender Hooks ♥
  
• Donald Justice's Night Light
  
• Marilyn Kallett's Devils Live So Near
  
• Eileen Tabios' Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole: still reading...
  
• Eileen Tabios' Menage á Trois with the 21st Century: still reading...
  
• Eileen Tabios' I Take Thee, English, for My Beloved: still reading...
  
• Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry: useful
  
• Shin Yu Pai's Equivalence: wish I'd read more of this, but only picked it up on the last day...
  
• Jane Hirshfield's The October Palace
  
• Nick Flynn's Some Ether ♥
  
• Kate Atkinson's Case Histories: a little disappointing.
  
• Denise Duhamel's Queen for a Day ♥
  
• Christine Hamm's Discount Heaven: still reading...
  
• Mike Snider's 44 sonnets: mentioned here
  
• Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals
  
• Phillis Levin's Mercury
  
• Cathy Park Hong's Translating Mo'um
  
• The Poet's Notebook: intriguing...
  
• Bobby Previte's Claude's Late Morning [CD]
  
• Poetry Project Newsletter
  
• Anne Sexton's To Bedlam and Part Way Back
  
• Gladding's Artichoke
  
• Susan Wicks' Night Toad: New and Selected Poems: still reading...
  
• Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections: pah!
  
• Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys: got bored, did not finish...
  
• Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: a page-turner ♥
  
• Poetry [journal]
  
• Lucy Grealey's Autobiography of a Face
  
• Paris Review [journal]
  

Hmm, it's a wonder I got any writing done.

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