Welcome to The Broken Plate Recommends Posted on November 3, 2021March 13, 2025 By The Broken Plate Editors Each week, members of The Broken Plate‘s staff will write blog posts recommending books, stories, poems and art that they find arresting and interesting. This can be anything that they find pertains to the mission that we stand for, as long as we feel that it is work of merit that fits with the brand and identity we have cultivated for our journal. The Broken Plate Recommends
The Broken Plate Recommends Holding Up the Universe Posted on December 15, 2021March 13, 2025 I remember the first time I ever read Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven. I had grown to admire Niven after she released All the Bright Places, and so when I found out that she was releasing a new novel, I was ecstatic. I wasn’t quite sure what I… Read More
The Broken Plate Recommends This Is Where It Ends and Human Fragility Posted on November 3, 2021March 13, 2025 Here at The Broken Plate, one of our core ideas is that of the fragility of the human condition, but in the ability to put those pieces back together into beauty and art. In my personal reading, a book that many friends were highly recommending to me was Marieke Nijkamp’s… Read More
Book Reviews Zines, Food, and Finding Connection in Bite by Bite Posted on May 1, 2026May 1, 2026 When we (The Broken Plate staff) were told that we’d have to come up with a lesson plan and execute it in a little under a month, I was nervous. I’m not an education major, or ever even considered it, but nevertheless it was an opportunity to connect with young writers and inspire them to create something… Read More