New York Times
Read “Say Thank You I’m Sorry” by Jericho Brown: “I’d like us to rethink/What it is to be a nation.”
LitHub
Read “This’ll hurt me more” by Camille Dungy: “America,/I’ll tell you this much, I cannot understand this mind,/where it reaches.”
The New Yorker
Read “George Floyd” by Terrance Hayes: “the river runs dry your face/the music of the spheres/Emmett till the end of time.”
TIME
Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive included in TIME’s 45 New Books You Need to Read This Summer.
Guggenheim Fellow
Congratulations to Blue Flower Aimee Nezhukumatathil has been named a Guggenheim Fellow!
New York Times
Read Hisham Matar’s interactive piece, “Something Happens When You Fall” for the New York Times.
Library Journal
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown speaks to Library Journal on how he wants us to read poetry.
USPL
Congratulations to Joy Harjo who was appointed for a second term as our United States Poet Laureate!
CNN
Actors and activists bring Oedipus to Zoom in healing performance by Bryan Doerries‘ Theater of War.
Washington Post
Two timely articles by Katha Pollitt on the coronavirus, self isolation, and how abortion foes are using the pandemic as an excuse.