Congratulations to Major Jackson for being awarded the Yale Library’s Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry for his poetry collection, Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2023).
Congratulations to Hisham Matar (Fiction finalist for My Friends), Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (Poetry winner for Something About Living), and Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Poetry longlist for Silver).
Congratulations to Hisham Matar (Fiction finalist for My Friends) and Dawn Lundy Martin (Poetry nominee for Instructions for the Lovers).
Hisham Matar, Torrey Peters, Claudia Rankine, and George Saunders titles included on 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.
Stephanie Burt on Taylor Swift, relatability, and her course at a college famous for being famous.
Deesha Philyaw launches a new podcast, Reckon True Stories, with Kiese Laymon.
Congratulations to Airea D. Matthews and Mai Der Vang who were named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in Poetry.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo whose Family Lore won a NAACP, alongside the work of nominees Terrance Hayes and Nicole Sealey.
Congratulations to m nourbeSe philip, who is among the recipients of the Windham Campbell Award for Poetry.
Kwame Dawes is the new Poet Laureate of Jamaica through 2024-2027.
