In 1996, editors R. R. Knudson and Suzzanne Bigelow published May Swenson: A Poet's Life in Photos. This wonderful book contains photographs of Swenson from her infancy to old age and includes many pictures of her at functions with family members and with fellow poets. It also includes close to thirty poems in a section at the end entitled "A Life in Poems." This is a must-see, must-read photo album for any Swenson student.

Ray Bradbury is one of the most respected authors in the genre of science fiction, and one of his most popular books is The Martian Chronicles, published in 1950. This collection of stories about colonies of human beings setting out to explore Mars in the then-distant year of 1999 is an important reflection on humanity's treatment of "the other" (in this case, the Martians) and on the tendency to...