Sheikh Zayed Award
Congratulations to Dunya Mikhail who was long listed for the 2017 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for The Beekeeper!
The New Yorker
Roxana Robinson’s piece in The New Yorker gives a peak inside her classroom and astute reflection on Madame Bovary.
Poetry Foundation
Read this interview with USPL Tracy K. Smith on diverse reading and having an authentic encounter with a poem.
WBUR
Read about the musical collaboration inspired by Carolyn Forché’s collection Blue Hour.
NSK Neustadt Prize
Congratulations to our very own Marilyn Nelson, winner of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature!
SF Gate
Javier Zamora on retracing trauma and memory across borders in his collection Unaccompanied.
SF Gate
Read Frank Bidart’s poem “Heartbeat” here: (creatures/bred now for slaughter will/then never be bred)
NBC News
Review of Cristina Garcia’s Here in Berlin: the drive of the book is in the construction of a dazzling portrait.
PBS News
Dani Shapiro discusses her memoir Hourglass: what I wanted to explore was the beauty, along with the troubles, of duration.
PEN Center USA
Solmaz Sharif awarded the 27th annual PEN Center USA Literary Award in poetry for her collection LOOK.