American Poets Prizes
Marilyn Nelson, Jericho Brown, and Mai Der Vang among winners of the 2022 American Poets Prizes.
National Book Awards
Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense and Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom among titles included on the National Book Awards’ longlists.
The Yale Review
Five questions with Jenny Xie on memory, migration, and poetry: “the poems [try] to thin the membrane between the living and the dead.”
Poetry Question
Review of Sun Yung Shin’s The Wet Hex: “The Wet Hex is, at its core, a fractured narrative of becoming.”
NEA
Joy Harjo’s Living Nations, Living Words has been chosen for NEA’s Read Across America for November 2022.
New York Times
Read Beth Ann Fennelly’s essay, “I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them” here.
Booker Prize
Congratulations to all the 2022 Booker Prize finalists, including Percival Everett for his novel The Trees!
Kirkus Reviews
Congratulations to Mecca Jamilah Sullivan whose debut Big Girl is longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.
CNN
CNN speaks with Bryan Doerries about Theater of War’s The Suppliants, featuring a chorus of Ukrainian citizens discussing the war.
AP
Random House Children’s Books will publish Joy Harjo’s picture book Remember, which is adapted from her celebrated poem of the same name.