Poet Laureate
Kwame Dawes is the new Poet Laureate of Jamaica through 2024-2027.
poets.org
A new poem from Keetje Kuipers’ forthcoming Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, “Emesis.”
LiteraryHub
Read an excerpt from Bonnie Jo Campbell’s The Waters: “The town has a troubled soul.”
Academy of American Poets
Jericho Brown joins Diane Seuss and Afaa Michael Weaver as the Academy’s three, new Chancellors.
Publishers Weekly
Carolyn Forché joins booksellers and authors to raise money for Ukraine.
The New Yorker
An interview with Jorie Graham on distraction, ecological devastation, and the future of the medium of poetry.
Brittle Paper
Kwame Dawes named Brittle Paper’s 2022 Literary Person of the Year.
Goop
Review of Akil Kumarasky’s Meet Me by the Roaring Sea, a “…mesmerizing and odd novel…haunting and beautiful.”
Peste Magazine
Read Dunya Mikhail’s poem “Friendship Snapshot” here: My friend is always busy, / so I made a new friend / of Play-Doh.
The Week
Meghan O’Rourke recommends six books on understanding pain and illness including titles by Natasha Trethewey and Susan Sontag.