My Feelings
The New York Times calls Nick Flynn’s new poems “buzzing, stinging plunges into the complicated colony of self.”
The Millions
Mary Gaitskill‘s The Mare and Bonnie Jo Campbell‘s Mothers, Tell Your Daughters named to The Million’s Most Anticipated.
Forward Prize
Paul Muldoon and Claudia Rankine both shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
NYT Magazine
Read Claudia Rankine‘s powerful article ‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning.’
Oxford Professor
Simon Armitage chosen as Oxford’s Professor of Poetry, second only in prestige to the poet laureate according to The Guardian.
Village Voice
Aja Monet uses poetry as a tool to protest violence and racial injustice, as reported by the Village Voice.
Bridges to/from Cuba
Richard Blanco launches a writing project to lift what he calls Cuba’s ’emotional embargo,’ as told to the AP.
Heaven
“The only way then to know a truth” writes Rowan Ricardo Phillips in his newest poetry collection, “Is to squint in its direction and poke.”
New USPL
We congratulate Juan Felipe Herrera on being named the next United States Poet Laureate!
PEN Open Book
Claudia Rankine‘s Citizen wins the 2015 PEN Open Book Award.