Artist News
Post-Gazette
Review of Rick Moody’s The Long Accomplishment: “frustrating and fulfilling, linear and digressive, mundane and profound.”
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Independent
Claudia Rankine and Simon Armitage included on list of booksellers’ top poetry books from last 25 years.
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The New Yorker
Read “The Man Who Owned Me” by Tracy K Smith: ” I carried him/Like I carried my own children.”
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LA Rev Books
Read this stunning review of Tina Chang’s Hybrida: “a book of kingdoms, forests, wolves, and witches.”
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CNN
Read Deborah Landau’s piece “We are all soft targets”: “A failure of imagination may prove tragic for us now.”
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New York Times
Review of Joy Harjo’s An American Sunrise: celebration, crisis, brokenness and healing.
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Washington Post
Reviews of new, stunning collections of poetry including Joy Harjo’s An American Sunrise and Tina Chang’s Hybrida.
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NYT Magazine
Read brilliant, tracing poems – including one by Camille Dungy – in this Literary Timeline of African-American History.
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An American Sunrise
Congratulations to our new Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo, on the release of her latest: An American Sunrise.
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The Guardian
Simon Armitage’s latest poem, commissioned by the Institute of Cancer Research in London, engraved on chemotherapy pill.
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New York Mag
Interview with Adam Gopnik: “Liberals get nothing accomplished except everything eventually.”
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New York Times
Read Claudia Rankine’s essay “I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.”
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New York Times
Frank Bidart’s one-act “Ellen West”and 13 poems from Marie Howe’s Magdalene included in the set for the 2020 Prototype festival.
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The New Yorker
Mary Gaitskill discusses her new novella and the power of fiction for examining the #MeToo movement.
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The New Yorker
As USPL, Tracy K. Smith took literature to community centers, senior centers, prisons—anywhere people needed it.
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The New Yorker
Review of Stephanie Burt’s Don’t Read Poetry: At once erudite and colloquial, the book evokes the contagious enthusiasm of a cool teacher.
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Washington Post
Read this review of Gregory Orr’s latest collection The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write.
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Overtime
Adam Gopnik, Bill Maher, and his other guests answer viewer questions after the show.
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The New Yorker
Read Terrance Hayes’ newest in his on-going series of poems ‘American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin.’
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Poetry Foundation
Review of Emily Skillings‘ Fort Not: “to what extent Skillings remixes the aspects of an aesthetic category – that of the ‘interesting.'”
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US Poet Laureate
BFA poet and memoirist Joy Harjo appointed first Native American United States Poet Laureate!
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BBC
Robin Robertson wins Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction for his acclaimed book The Long Take.
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LA Rev Books
Brenda Hillman’s “Concerning the Meaning of Molecules In Poetry”: “that little meaning absolutely elusive, & erotic.”
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Carnegie Medal
Elizabeth Acevedo is the first ever writer of color to win the Carnegie medal, the UK’s most prestigious children’s books award.
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The Atlantic
Chen Chen, Claudia Rankine, and Solmaz Sharif, included in this list of a weekly guide to the best in books.
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On Being
Jericho Brown’s interview with Krista Tippett: “I’m interested in where people use violence as an excuse for love.”
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Bustle
Jericho Brown’s The Tradition included in 26 New Poetry Collections by LGBTQIA+ Writers in 2019.
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Oprah Mag
50 Unapologetically Queer Authors – including Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and Jericho Brown, share the best LGBTQ Books Ever.
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VQR
Read “The Ethics of the Third Person” a new poem from Nick Flynn here: “Every-/thing is as it should/be.”
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Washington Post
Review of Stephanie Burt’s new book, described as a literary manual for the Instagram era, Don’t Read Poetry.
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Poetry Magazine
Read Javier Zamora’s “[Immigration Headline]”: I’ll never see her again was/the fear as if she’s gone, died, will never come back.
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Firecracker Awards
Sherwin Bitsui’s Dissolve and Terrance Hayes’ To Float in the Space Between named finalists in the 2019 Firecracker Awards.
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Slate
Stephanie Burt reflects on Terrance Hayes‘ latest collection and his transformative work with the sonnet form.
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PBS Wild Card
Dunya Mikhail’s In Her Feminine Sign is chosen by the Poetry Book Society as their Wild Card in the Autumn 2019 Selections!
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The Times
Interview with new U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage: “A bad poem is about the worst thing you can give someone.”
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The New Yorker
Roxana Robinson’s novel Dawson’s Fall reviewed: re-creates events leading up to the murder of the author’s great-grandfather.
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Don’t Read Poetry!
Happy Publication Day to Stephanie Burt and her latest Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems.
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The Guardian
Former U.K. Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says newly appointed Simon Armitage, “knows where the heffalump traps are.”
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Washington Post
Review of Richard Blanco’s How to Love a Country: [Blanco] wrestles with the contradictions of American history.
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BBC
Newly appointed United Kingdom Poet Laureate Simon Armitage elected Oxford College honorary fellow.
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Ms. Magazine
Tina Chang and Elizabeth Acevedo’s latest titles included in May 2019 Reads for the Rest of Us.
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Hybrida
Happy pub day to Tina Chang’s latest poetry collection Hybrida, an examination of mixed-race identity rendered through the lens of motherhood.
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U.K. Poet Laureate
Congratulations to Blue Flower Simon Armitage who was named 21st Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom!
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Buzzfeed
Two heart-achingly brilliant poems from Camille Dungy: “But look at me. Still/on my hands and knees—still pushing.”
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New York Times
The New York Times claims Elizabeth Acevedo’s With the Fire On High as “literary soul food” in this stellar review.
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Washington Post
Review of Elizabeth Acevedo’s With The Fire On High a story to reconsider stereotypes with an indelible teen heroine.
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The New Yorker
A new poem from Vijay Seshadri: “I wanted to wallow like a water buffalo in the cool,/sagacious mud of my past.”
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Bustle
Review of Elizabeth Acevedo’s latest YA novel With The Fire On High: “A Story Of Joy.”
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Harvard Arts
USPL Tracy K. Smith awarded 2019 Harvard Arts Medal: “to be recognized as belonging to this place means the world to me.”
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Kenyon Review
Interview with Deborah Landau: the fear of annihilation extends beyond the self to a planet on which we’re all soft targets.
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The Telegraph
Review of Carolyn Forche’s What You Have Heard is True: “a poet’s-eye view of war in El Salvador.”
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Indie Choice Award
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo winner of the 2019 Indie Choice Book Award for her Young Adult novel The Poet X.
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Pegasus Award
Congratulations to Marilyn Nelson and Terrance Hayes two of the Poetry Foundation’s 2019 Pegasus Award winners!
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Night Angler
Congratulations to Geffrey Davis on the release of his second collection Night Angler!
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Soft Targets
Happy Publication Day to Deborah Landau and her most recent collection Soft Targets from Copper Canyon Press!
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LitHub
Review of Deborah Landau’s immediate, poignant, and powerful poetry, including her forthcoming collection Soft Targets.
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Jackson Poetry Prize
Congratulations to Joy Harjo winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize: “Poems that hold us up to the truth and insist we pay attention.”
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NYT Modern Love
Read Tina Chang’s essay for the New York Times: “I see myself in his face, the eyes like mine, left slightly larger than right. All of it: me.”
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Pulitzer Prize
Congratulations to Forrest Gander on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his stunning collection Be With.
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Anisfield-Wolf Awards
Tracy K. Smith’s wins the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry for her collection Wade in the Water.
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NYT Style
Jericho Brown one of twenty-five artists who appear in New York Times Style Magazine’s feature Leave the Car.
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Griffin Poetry Prize
Daniel Borzutzky short-listed for The Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection Lake Michigan.
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Washington Post
Jericho Brown’s The Tradition included on list of four poets speaking about race, gender, and violence.
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Guggenheim
Congratulations to Camille Dungy on receiving a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry!
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Rome Prize
Congratulations to Samiya Bashir recipient of a 2019-20 Rome Prize for literature a competitive fellowship supporting the arts!
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The Rumpus
Interview with Richard Blanco: Look at the lives of poets, each of their journeys is unique—and makes their poetry unique.
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poem-a-day
Read Solmaz Sharif’s poem “Now What” up at The Academy of American Poets: My materialist mind, I can’t / shake it.
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Paste
Review of Carolyn Forche’s What You Have Heard is True: “only a poet has the language to bear witness.”
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CA Book Award
Congratulations to Marcelo Hernandez Castillo winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award for Cenzontle!
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NYT Book Rev
Review of Jericho Brown’s The Tradition: Brown’s poems revel in the curiosities of their mythmaking and are self-confrontational in their gaze.
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The Tradition
Congratulations to Jericho Brown on the release of his poetry collection The Tradition!
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Common Read
Richard Blanco’s How to Love a Country included on Penguin Random House’s list of 2019 Common Reads!
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Bustle
Deborah Landau’s Soft Targets included on Bustle’s list of 13 New Poetry Collections You Need to Read This Spring.
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Arts Academy Inductees
Natasha Trethewey and Claudia Rankine among 2019 newly elected Arts Academy inductees.
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The New Yorker
Listen to Craig Morgan Teicher and Kevin Young read Forrest Gander’s poem “Son.”
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State Lines
Read a new poem by Julian Talamantez Brolaski: “brute battlements of infamy cd not/nor the former planet pluto.”
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Whiting Fellowship
Congratulations to Geffrey Davis winner of the Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship from the Whiting Foundation.
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New Release
Congratulations to Carolyn Forche on the release of her memoir What You Have Heard is True.
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Publishers Weekly
Review of Soft Targets by Deborah Landau: captures how humans, despite our anxiety, longing for “something tender that might bloom.”
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Windham-Campbell Prize
Congratulations to Kwame Dawes who is among the 2018 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes!
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Kingsley Tufts
Brenda Hillman’s Extra Hidden Life finalist for the 2018 Golden Poppy Book Award and the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
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Oprah Mag
Pam Houston discusses her Ranch that inspired her new memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope in High Country.
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NEA Fellowships
Congratulations to Geffrey Davis and Chen Chen on receiving two of the NEA Creative Writing Fellowships!
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Outside Magazine
Review of Pam Houston’s deeply personal and powerful recent memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope in High Country.
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The Guardian
Review of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness: a story of loss and resilience, love and coexistence and, above all, connection.
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LA Rev Books
Review of Robin Robertson’s The Long Take: An incredible work of poetic imagination and historical scholarship.
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The New Yorker
A poem from Richard Blanco’s forthcoming collection How to Love A Country: the rhyme
of sol with his soul.
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LA Times
Review of Pam Houston’s memoir Deep Creek: the mountains made her comfortable with a stronger version of herself.
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New York Times
Tracy K. Smith’s Work Diary: The “Non-stop Rush” of a Poet Laureate. What, you thought it was all iambic pentameter and tea?
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Harvard Arts
USPL Tracy K. Smith named Harvard Arts Medalist as a “graduate or faculty member who has achieved excellence in the arts.”
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The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X wins The Printz Award for Best YA Novel of 2018 recognizing, “the best writing in YA literature.”
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Publisher’s Weekly
Tina Chang and Jericho Brown’s forthcoming collections included on The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2019.
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On Being
Krista Tippet speaks with Claudia Rankine on race, racism, and whiteness: How can I say this so we can stay in this car together?
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NPR
Brilliant reviews of Jericho Brown’s The Tradition and Tina Chang’s Hybrida: America’s poets are stepping up.
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Acad Amer Poets
Leading champion of poets and poetry, the Academy named two new Chancellors: poets Joy Harjo and Natasha Trethewey.
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The New Yorker
Terrance Hayes reads “American Sonnet for the New Year”: “things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly/things got ugly…”
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LitHub
Honor Moor reflects on her new memoir and conjuring her mother: “I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death.”
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PBS
Interview with Dunya Mikhail: She stayed there in the garden and refused to move, like a stone. She’s turned into a stone.
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The New Yorker
Read George Saunders’ piece “Chicago Christmas, 1984”: The way we knew it was festive was the garage had been cleared of dog shit.
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Artforum
Watch this interview with Eileen Myles on their latest Evolution, art installation, and the bodily experience of being in the world.
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New York Times
Among other gorgeous titles, Hisham Matar’s The Return included on Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018!
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LitHub
Looking forward to all 2019 titles, most especially from the Blue Flowers included here: Jericho, Claudia, Tina, Deborah, and Pam!
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The New Yorker
The year 2018 in poems, with lyrical moments from Jericho Brown, Joy Harjo, Nick Flynn, and Geffrey Davis.
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Best Books 2018
Brenda, Forrest, Aimee, Tracy, Amy! So many gorgeous titles and authors included on this list of The Best Books of 2018!
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NYT Book Review
Review of Forrest Gander’s Be With: a book that probes and explores a question: How do we know where we ourselves begin or end?
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New York Times
Political poetry is hot again. Tracy K Smith, our current USPL, explores why and how through the work of a few contemporary poets.
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The Guardian
An interview with Robin Robertson: “Writing poetry has very little to do with the intellect.”
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Buzzfeed
Natasha Trethewey’s new collection Monument feels timely, but she’s been reckoning with America’s sins for decades.
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PEN America
Thrilled for Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Dunya Mikhail, Jenny Xie, and Adam Zagajewski, longlisted for the PEN America Lit Awards!
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The Atlantic
Review of Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ The Circuit: Phillips keeps the pages turning with an easy yet exacting style and keen observations.
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Lit Hub
Read from Andre Dubus III’s “Love is the Sky” a short story included in his collection The Cross Country Runner.
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The New Yorker
Forrest Gander, Terrance Hayes, and Jenny Xie included in The New Yorker’s The Best Poetry of 2018.
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Book Forum
Review of Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ The Circuit: Sports are a microcosm of life—it’s how you play the game.
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GQ
Jeff Tweedy and George Saunders talk about ambition, writing, creativity—and where they find it.
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New York Times
The Paris Review
An excerpt from Rowan Ricardo Phillip’s The Circuit: Myth, legend, and truth: they work on their own time and make their own order.
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NYT Book Review
Natasha Trethewey’s latest collection Monument included in 10 New Books We Recommend This Week by the NYT Book Review.
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Poem-a-Day
A poem by Daniel Borzutzky: I am not responsible for my dreams rather I am responsible for what I do with my dreams.
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The Paris Review
Interview with two-term national Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey: To come face-to-face with what is not remembered is painful.
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The Guardian
Robin Robertson’s The Long Take wins the Goldsmiths prize: a film noir verse novel full of blinding sunlight and lingering shadows.
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Washington Post
Tracy K. Smith and Terrance Hayes included in The Best Poetry Collections of 2018 alongside Ada Limón and and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Publisher’s Weekly
John Freeman, author and editor of Freeman’s, receives CLMP’s Energizer Award for Exceptional Acts of Literary Citizenship.
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Hall-Kenyon Prize
USPL Tracy K. Smith named winner of the 2018 Hall-Kenyon Prize in American Poetry.
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Washington Post
Review of Robin Robertson’s The Long Take: What and whom should we root for in today’s world of diminished dreams?
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National Book Award
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young Adult Literature for The Poet X!
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New York Times
Review of Natasha Trethewey’s Monument: the sort of poem(s) that can make one utter little curses of appreciation.
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Vanity Fair
In her Natasha Trethewey’s Monument, the Pulitzer Prize winner discusses grief, the true character of America, and her hope.
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A Man’s World
Rita Dove selects Tracy K. Smith’s poem for the New York Times Magazine: He’ll grin watching you squint, deciphering.
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New York Times
Review of Andre Dubus III Gone So Long: Dubus does a good job making Daniel’s self-justifications seem both plausible and crazy.
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LitHub
Eula Biss on grappling with Whiteness: “I saw my whiteness, dancing there, mocking me, daring me to try to understand it.”
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New York Times
Natasha Trethewey discusses Toni Morrison (her favorite novelist), poetry, and the ubiquitous nature of white rage.
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Am I Welcome?
Javier Zamora for the New York Times, a reflection on immigration and belonging: I have a green card now. I should feel safer.
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Am Poetry Rev
Read Jericho Brown’s stunning new poem: In the dream where I am an island,/I grow green with hope. I’d like to end there.
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Bobbitt Prize
Congratulations to Jorie Graham, winner of the 2018 Bobbitt Poetry Prize for her collection Fast!
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Artsy
Cult-favorite poet Eileen Myles on their collection Evolution and their art world breakout: Art, Myles says, is all ventriloquism.
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Lit Hub
Andre Dubus III and Meg Wolitzer share in a conversation on curiosity, writing as empathy, and how to write a whole novel.
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The Guardian
Listen to Terrance Hayes discuss his collection and how writing a sonnet a day is a challenge the present won’t let him put aside.
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The New Yorker
Hear Geffrey Davis read his poem “The Fidelity of Water”: Used to be no future/in yearning. Feel how far you’ve come?
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NYT Magazine
Javier Zamora’s poem “Exilados:” I stood, remembering what it’s like/to stand on dirt wishing stars would fall/as rain.
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The Guardian
Congratulations to Tracy K. Smith and Terrance Hayes who were both shortlisted for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize.
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wgbh News
Richard Blanco discusses poems about Fall “In All Its Sadness And Glory,” including Maggie Smith’s “First Fall.”
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Poetry As A Lifeline
An interview with Linda Gregerson: We’ve forgotten how to talk to one another; we’ve forgotten how to listen.
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NPR
Congratulations to all National Book Award finalists – including our very own Jenny Xie and Terrance Hayes!
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The Guardian
USPL Tracy K. Smith to host 5-Minute Weekly Poetry Podcast: poems are a necessity – a means of living more deeply with reality.
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WBUR
Andre Dubus III is back with his novel Gone So Long, in which a family struggles with forgiveness 40 years after a mother’s murder.
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Poetry Foundation
Read Deborah Landau’s poem “The Silence Will Be Sudden Then Last” from her forthcoming collection Soft Targets.
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New York Times
An interview with Andre Dubus III on his latest novel Gone So Long and the power of compassion in literature for your characters.
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Washington Post
Review of Andre Dubus’ Gone So Long: a meditation on regret and anger — how people cope with it and how destructive it can be.
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The Guardian
The Man Booker shortlisted author Robin Robertson on his love for Jane Bowles and why he never gives books as presents.
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ZYZZYVA
Review of Forrest Gander’s Be With: One often feels stretched into a cherished complexity, pushing the bounds of what we know.
New York Times
Review of ‘What Remains’, Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls’ collaboration on the black experience, self surveillance, white society.
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The Ancestral Poet
Review of Natasha Trethewey’s Monument: “I was trying to create a lasting, lyrical monument — a monument in words.”
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The New Yorker
Tracy K. Smith is a storyteller whose poetry loves to explore how the body can respond to a lover, to family, and to history.
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Marie Claire
A River of Stars was selected for the October Marie Claire book club! Read their interview with Vanessa Hua here.
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Man Booker Prize
Robin Robertson’s novel in verse The Long Take short-listed for the prestigious Man Booker Prize.
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New York Times
Reflection on ‘Antigone in Ferguson’ highlights the chorus in Greek Tragedy, and the equally important presence of the audience.
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America Magazine
Review of Vanessa Hua’s debut novel A River of Stars, which adds another tale to the complicated mythology of American immigration.
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Publishers Weekly
Conversation with Andre Dubus III on his latest novel Gone So Long: I’ve learned over the years to trust what I’m curious about.
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The Quietus
Review of Forrest Gander’s Be With: Gander’s work spans decades and disavows genre: poetry, photography, translation, prose, dance.
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National Book Award
Congratulations to those longlisted for the NBA including: Dunya Mikhail, Natasha Trethewey, Forrest Gander, and Jenny Xie!
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Fresh Air
Vanessa Hua joins Terry Gross for a conversation on A River of Stars: “I’ve always tried to shine a light onto untold stories.”
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On My Radar
An interview with USPL Tracy K. Smith on a captivating animation, a powerful opera, and a hideaway in Alaska.
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LA Rev Books
Read this interview Vanessa Hua on motherhood and migration within her novel A River of Stars.
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Lit Hub
Read the prose poem “Ann Lee” from Eileen Myles’ latest poetry collection Evolution.
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Typewriter Project
Reflections on the Poetry Society of NY’s brainchild: The Typewriter Project is part poetry installation, part art installation.
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Vanity Fair
Eileen Myles, poet and Instagrammer, on Evolution and how they want to help readers find poetry on more than just the page.
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The Beekeeper
A review of Dunya Mikhail’s book, the timely and urgent The Beekeeper, in which ordinary people risk their lives to save those of others.
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Paris Review
An interview with Eileen Myles: Here is the most desperate word we have for marking a point, occupying it and holding onto it.
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Rhino Poetry
Review of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic: Nezhukumatathil shows how inextricably involved everything is.
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Washington Post
Natasha Trethewey’s Monument included on list of books to read this fall: Trethewey’s verse is as accessible as it is brilliant.
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Am Poets Prize
Congratulations to Geffrey Davis, recipient of the 2018 James Laughlin Award in poetry for his forthcoming collection Night Angler.
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New America
Jonathan M. Katz named 2019 ASU Future of War Fellow in upcoming class of New America National Fellows.
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The New Yorker
Read Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s latest story “Audition”: The roles we played were generic, superficial, and true.
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LA Rev Books
A conversation with Kwame Dawes on the role of music in verse and the overlap between the two genres.
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Irish Times
Review of Robin Robertson’s novel in verse The Long Take, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: gripping and moving.
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The Margins
Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay on collaboration, epistolary poetry, and the intimacy of sentences.
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LA Rev Books
A reflection on Tracy K. Smith as Poet Laureate, her admiration for Emily Dickinson, and what it means to be a Nobody, too.
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NPR
Interview with Vanessa Hua on her recent novel A River of Stars: Are we perceived as eternal foreigners, no matter how deep our roots?
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APR
American Poetry Review features Deborah Landau and her forthcoming Soft Targets, with several poems from the collection.
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London Review
On Robin Robertson’s The Long Take: Catastrophe transformed to image to neutralise its pain is very much Robertson’s thing.
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Chic Tribune Prize
George Saunders is a 2018 recipient of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for his first novel Lincoln in the Bardo.
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NPR
Interview with Claudia Rankine on her art exhibit Stamped: One young woman said, “When I went blonde, I found myself.”
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New York Times
Peter Balakian reflects on how his Armenian ancestry connects to his work – the translation of a book, a lecture tour, a symposium.
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The New Yorker
Review of Forrest Gander’s newest collection Be With: the poet yearns, endures, and tries to spin the inchoate into words.
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Star Tribune
Review of Natalie Goldberg’s Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home chronicling the process of illness, fear, and recovery.
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The Atlantic
Claudia Rankine discusses her installation Stamped, the politics of hair color, and the significance and ethnic pressure to be blonde.
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Poetry to Power
A profile on Joy Harjo where she shares her thoughts on poetry, politics, and power throughout the history of America.
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Bustle
Review of Vanessa Hua’s A River of Stars: Hua uses her characters to challenge popular portrayals of motherhood.
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NY State Poet
Alicia Ostriker has been named New York’s 11th State Poet, a writer described as: essential to understanding our American selves.
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Parade
Are Braces a Birthright? by Vanessa Hua: My parents had tried to give me the teeth they didn’t have, and I had squandered it.
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LA Book Review
Review of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness: Happiness shows us why we must embrace coexistence and how this works in practice.
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The Atlantic
Chen Chen discussed among promising artists in the rising generation of writers who are exploring identity in new ways.
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Library of Congress
Tracy K. Smith speaks with the library about her outreach efforts and focus for her second term.
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San Francisco Mag
Review of Vanessa Hua’s A River of Stars: the whole human experience, hiding in plain sight.
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McSweeney’s
Read this interview with Javier Zamora: Beauty manifests itself in different ways, even in a traumatic experience.
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The Guardian
Read this interview with Jericho Brown: Poetry is a veil in front of a heart beating at a fast pace.
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New York Times
Review of Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets: For Hayes the excitement of the sonnet stems from its insistence on change.
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The Paris Review
Read this analysis of Natalie Diaz’s poem “When the Beloved Asks, ‘What Would You Do If You Woke Up and I Was a Shark?'”
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The New Yorker
Read Joy Harjo’s poem “Running:” Violence is my boyfriend / With a cross to bear / Hoisted on by the church.
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Vogue
Claudia Rankine and John Lucas explore the reasons for the popularity of blonde hair in the new exhibition “Stamped.”
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The Guardian
Review of Dunya Mikhail’s The Beekeeper: This book makes a sound, and it should be a loud one. We should all read it.
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Man Booker Prize
Robin Robertson’s novel in verse, The Long Take, is the first poetry book to be long-listed for the Man Booker Prize!
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Poetry Society
Congratulations to Robin Robertson, winner of the fourth annual Roehampton Poetry Prize for his The Long Take.
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New York Times
This fall Harlem stage anticipates “Antigone in Ferguson,” an adaptation of Sophocles’ Greek Tragedy by Theater of War.
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Colby Magazine
Interview with Richard Blanco: “Art suffers in some ways from the same thing that poetry does—a lot of misinformation.”
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Publishers Weekly
Congratulations to Natasha Trethewey, Sherwin Bitsui, and Eileen Myles whose forthcoming collections are in PW Top 10 Fall 2018!
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Slate
Read Jonathan M Katz’s timely article “Not Every Concentration Camp Is Auschwitz:” This is not just a debate over semantics.
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American Sonnets
Congratulations to Terrance Hayes on the release of his powerful collection, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
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Vogue
Tracy K. Smith on America’s troubled racial history: “bring voice to the unsayable, the untranslatable.”
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The Guardian
Review of Robin Robertson’s The Long Take: a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful, and almost unbearably moving.
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White Houses
Amy Bloom’s book White Houses, about Eleanor Roosevelt’s relationship with Lorena Hickok, slated for TV mini series.
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USPL
Tracy K. Smith is appointed a 2nd term as US Poet Laureate to expand her outreach efforts to rural communities!
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The Nation
Read Dunya Mikhail’s article “The Exodus”: Their pieces of clothing looked like white flags in a time of war, or like delayed dreams.
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Washington Post
Review of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness: Each episode materializes as memories do, with sharp and fragile immediacy.
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Newsweek
Interview with Amy Bloom on White Houses: “None of us, in our own lives, are the little tugboat. We are the center of the story.”
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LA Times
Brenda Hillman’s latest collection Extra Hidden Life ponders how poetry can help us chronicle, engage, and grieve.
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The Guardian
Review of Afterglow: This is no run-of-the-mill anthropomorphism – Myles prefers the reverse: the dog in us and in other people
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SF Chronicle
Review of Amy Bloom’s White Houses: ““I loved being the brave and battered little dinghy. She loved being the lighthouse.”
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Oxonian Review
Review of Jorie Graham’s Fast: a restless intelligence within the poems engages with the force of the world.
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Kingsley Tufts Awards
Congratulations to Patricia Smith, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection Incendiary Art!
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White Houses
Congratulations to Amy Bloom on the release of her elegant and gripping new novel, White Houses.
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Drum Major Instinct
Watch a video on Bryan Doerries’ reenactment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final sermon at the Brooklyn Public Library.
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Bustle
Amy Bloom’s White Houses, soon to be released, included on Bustle’s 15 Best Fiction Books Coming Out in February.
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Heating & Cooling
Read this review of Beth Ann Fennelly’s genre-defying collection: What emerges are moments that have shaped a life.
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LA Times
Read this profile covering John Freeman, his latest collection Maps, and his anthology Freeman’s.
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The Worst of Times
John Freeman reflects on this past year, our President, and the irreality complex that produced him in this essay for LitHub.
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NAACP Award
Congratulations to the ever-fearless Patricia Smith who won in the 49th NAACP Awards for her 2017 collection Incendiary Art!
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The Washington Post
Jonathan M. Katz on President Trump’s defenders, Haiti’s history, and the United States.
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Publishers Weekly
A brilliant review of Brenda Hillman’s forthcoming collection Extra Hidden Life by Publishers Weekly.
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Am Poetry Review
Read Li-Young Lee’s title poem “The Undressing” up at the American Poetry Review today!
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Interview Magazine
Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders’s books included on Interview Magazine’s 10 Best Books of 2017.
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LA Times
Chee recommends Mary Gaitskill’s Somebody With a Little Hammer: surprising, delightful, and sublime.
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Publishers Weekly
Dunya Mikhail’s The Beekeeper holds leading title in Publishers Weekly Spring Announcements for History.
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Robert Creeley Award
Congratulations to our very own Mark Doty, winner of the 18th Annual Robert Creeley Award!
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Patricia Smith
Poets House celebrates the poetry of Patricia Smith with celebratory readings by Terrance Hayes, Cornelius Eady, and more!
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New York Times
Amber Tamblyn on why she is not yet ready for the redemption of men: We’re in the midst of a reckoning.
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NYT Book Review
Congrats to Jorie Graham and George Saunders whose books were included on New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017!
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THE
Read this interview with Simon Armitage on why he’s glad he didn’t study English at university and the future of literature.
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Fox News
Exiled writers from across the world find refuge in Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, including our very own Osama Alomar.
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The Washington Post
Check out The Washington Post’s The Best Poetry Collections of 2017, which includes Frank Bidart and Maggie Smith.
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Boston Public Radio
Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco joins Boston Public Radio to reflect on giving thanks in the face of hardship.
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National Book Award
Congratulations to our very own Frank Bidart, winner of the 2017 National Book Award for poetry for his collection Half-Light!
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Lannan Fellowship
Congratulations to Javier Zamora, recipient of a 2017 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry!
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Sheikh Zayed Award
Congratulations to Dunya Mikhail who was long listed for the 2017 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for The Beekeeper!
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The New Yorker
Roxana Robinson’s piece in The New Yorker gives a peak inside her classroom and astute reflection on Madame Bovary.
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Poetry Foundation
Read this interview with USPL Tracy K. Smith on diverse reading and having an authentic encounter with a poem.
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WBUR
Read about the musical collaboration inspired by Carolyn Forché’s collection Blue Hour.
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NSK Neustadt Prize
Congratulations to our very own Marilyn Nelson, winner of the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature!
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SF Gate
Javier Zamora on retracing trauma and memory across borders in his collection Unaccompanied.
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SF Gate
Read Frank Bidart’s poem “Heartbeat” here: (creatures/bred now for slaughter will/then never be bred)
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NBC News
Review of Cristina Garcia’s Here in Berlin: the drive of the book is in the construction of a dazzling portrait.
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PBS News
Dani Shapiro discusses her memoir Hourglass: what I wanted to explore was the beauty, along with the troubles, of duration.
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PEN Center USA
Solmaz Sharif awarded the 27th annual PEN Center USA Literary Award in poetry for her collection LOOK.
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NewStatesmen
An interview with George Saunders on Lincoln, racial tension in America, and why the current US president is beyond satire.
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St. L Post-Dispatch
Review of Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied: A powerful portrait of the kind of nightmare that keeps parents up at night.
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SF Chronicle
Review of Cristina Garcia’s Here in Berlin: an exhilarating orchestration of competing voices and temporalities.
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SF Chronicle
Review of Eileen Myles’ memoir Afterglow: Myles has a history of carefully, skillfully, failing to meet expectations.
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Carnegie Medal
George Saunders is listed among finalists for the Carnegie Medal in fiction for his novel Lincoln In the Bardo.
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MSN Online
Watch this interview with Aja Monet on My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter: If it can’t be spoken it ain’t worth writing.
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Smithsonian
Feature on Bryan Doerries’ Theater of War: The important work begins in discussion. The play is the vehicle used to get there.
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LA Review of Books
Read this interview with John Freeman as he discusses poetry, politics, and his new forthcoming collection Maps.
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The Guardian
Garth Greenwell reflects on his journey: When I sang opera, the things that had been sources of shame were sources of value.
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The Washington Post
Review of Maggie Smith’s latest collection Good Bones: the writing is honest, compassionate, and graceful.
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Poets & Writers
Watch George Saunders’ acceptance speech for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, which he received for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo.
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CT Book Award
Okey Ndibe wins 2017 Connecticut Book Award for Non-Fiction for his Never Look An American In the Eye.
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New Republic
Solmaz Sharif quoted in article on erasure, Trump, and the power of obliterating ones own words and the words of others.
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The New Yorker
Review of Eileen Myles’ Afterglow: a wry, gorgeous, psychedelic effort to plumb the subject of dog-human partnership.
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The New Yorker
Listen to this poetry podcast where Charles Simic and Paul Muldoon come together to read and discuss work by Sharon Olds.
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New York Times
The NYT asks the question: Where Have All Our Heroes Gone? and cites Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith among current exemplars.
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Man Booker Prize
Congratulations to George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo!
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LA Review of Books
Review of Cristina García’s Here in Berlin: A dispersal of identities is what gives the book its strength.
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New York Times
Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina included on list of What to Read Before You Go to Mississippi.
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NYT Book Review
Review of Frank Bidart’s Half-light: his genius is his ability to transform a poem into a moral interrogation.
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BBC
Read about Joy Harjo, the Endangered Poetry Project, and the preservation of a dying language as an act of resistance.
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Narrative Magazine
Congratulations to Javier Zamora, winner of the 2017 Narrative Prize! Read his winning poems here.
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The London Magazine
Analysis of Jorie Graham’s Fast: It immerses us in environmental violence, but what succeeds is the wish to live on.
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National Book Award
Congratulations to Frank Bidart who was short-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for poetry for his collection Half-light.
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5 Under 35
A huge congratulations to Lesley Nneka Arimah who was selected by the National Book Foundation as a 5 Under 35 honoree!
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Kirkus Prize
Our very own Lesley Nneka Arimah long-listed for the Kirkus Prize in fiction for What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky.
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PEN Literary Award
Congratulations to Solmaz Sharif, winner of the 2017 PEN Center Literary Award for Poetry.
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Forward Prize
Congrats to Ocean Vuong, winner of the Forward Prizes Best First Collection 2017 for Night Sky with Exit Wounds!
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New York Times
Check out Amber Tamblyn’s article where she speaks out on women, sexual harassment, and not being believed.
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The War in Colors
Dunya Mikhail’s poem featured on the Academy of American Poets: The war / on the map / is beautiful / smart / and colorful.
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The New Yorker
Review of Salvadoran-born poet Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied: can you ever feel like you belong fully to either country?
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National Book Award
Congratulations to our very own Marie Howe and Frank Bidart who are long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for poetry.
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Man Booker Prize
Congratulations to George Saunders, whose novel Lincoln in the Bardo was short listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize!
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Heinz Award
Congratulations to Natasha Trethewey, recipient of the 22nd Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities!
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WGBH News
Richard Blanco joins WGBH Boston Public Radio in a bimonthly segment to explore current events through poetry!
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Bustle
Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban included on Bustle’s list of 10 Latinx Classics.
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Press Herald
Review of Eileen Myles’s Afterglow: an exploration of several grand themes and a series of unpredictable digressions.
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NPR Book Review
Read this review of John Freeman’s Tales Of Two Americas, which seeks to shed light on economic inequality in America.
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ideastream
Listen to this interview with Karan Mahajan: I use the word small ironically, no attack is small for someone whose been a victim.
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Neustadt Prize
Congratulations to our very own Patricia Smith, listed among finalists for the 2018 Neustadt Prize for her collection Incendiary Art!
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Bustle
John Freeman’s Tales of Two Americas included on Bustle’s list of Nonfiction Books Coming in September 2017.
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The Guardian
Review of Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: bracing and varied.
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The New Yorker
Paul Muldoon reflects on how John Ashbery Changed The Rules of American Poetry in this article for The New Yorker.
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WMOT Roots
How Tracy K. Smith, our United States Poet Laureate, finds poetry in Justin Bieber.
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The New York Times
Two Lessons in Prejudice by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: I was participating in a game in which there was no chance of winning.
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The Spectator
Eula Biss included on list of Three Women Tackling Racism Head On for essay collection Notes on No Man’s Land.
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The New York Times
In this Bookends article, Francine Prose discusses what free speech means in the context of Charlottesville and beyond.
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Channel 4 News
Watch this interview as Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You, discusses cruising, gay marriage and LGBT rights.
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Kirkus Review
Lesley Nneka Arimah included on The Kirkus Review’s list of 10 Debut Writers Worth Your Time.
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The Washington Post
Claudia Rankine on Wallace Stevens Award recipient Jorie Graham: she unearths the nuances of fundamental desires to live, to love, to be.
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Wallace Stevens
Congratulations to our very own Jorie Graham on winning the 2017 Wallace Stevens Award!
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The Irish Times
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon on his variety show: We like to keep things moving – it moves along at quite a lick.
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DSC Prize
Karan Mahajan among longlisters for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for his book Association of Small Bombs.
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VICE
Tender Photos of Black Men That Redefine Masculinity, photos that live in conversation with a poem by Rickey Laurentiis.
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Canadian Art
Claudia Rankine on White Supremacy, Art, and America: It’s beyond time to look at whiteness both within and beyond art.
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The New York Times
Javier Zamora included in the feature The Rooms Where Writers Work, alongside Danzy Senna and Camille Bordas.
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The Washington Post
Analysis of Frank Bidart’s Half-Light: The collection highlights his enduring themes, among them: desire and shame.
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Chicago Tribune
Review of Jill Bialosky’s Poetry Will Save Your Life: a delightfully hybrid book: part critical study, part autobiography.
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The New Yorker
Listen to Garth Greenwell read his story “An Evening Out” from the August issue of The New Yorker.
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The New York Times
Jorie Graham’s Fast included on the New York Times’ list of 9 New Books We Recommend This Week.
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Bustle
List of motivating resistance poetry includes Aja Monet, Claudia Rankine, Patricia Smith, Solmaz Sharif, and Carol Ann Duffy.
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Unaccompanied
NYT Book Review
Review of Jorie Graham’s Fast: Graham writes an autopsy of self and nation in the face of overwhelming loss.
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NYT Book Review
Poetry in Action, Marie Howe and five other contemporary poets share the process behind their poems.
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SF Chronicle
A host of Blue Flowers take to the page in Resistance, Rebellion, Life, a collection of poetry responding to our world today.
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World Literature
Interview with Carolyn Forché: there is a resistance to poetry, arising from an intention to persuade. But it goes beyond that.
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Poetry Foundation
Listen as the editors discuss Li-Young Lee’s “Changing Places in the Fire” from the July/August 2017 issue of Poetry.
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ncpr
Story Traveler with Gioia Timpanelli, listen as she reads from her unscripted stories, both contemporary and world folktales.
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AEON
A discussion of storytelling with George Saunders: A story is like a black box – you put the reader in there.
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The Guardian
Review of Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky With Exit Wounds: Balancing memory and silence with erudition, his poetry resists.
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WHYY Public Media
Listen to this interview with new Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith: Kids, they live in metaphor, and in life we get pulled away from that.
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The New York Times
Theater of War addresses prosecutors, victims, and revenge in its most recent production of The Oresteia in Manhattan.
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Star-Tribune
For Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky the accolades keep rolling in.
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NYT Book Review
Review of Slight Exaggeration by Adam Zagajewski: to be discerning was to resist, survive and remain human.
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NewStatesmen
Review of Night Sky With Exit Wounds: Ocean Vuong’s poetry brims with precise, surreal and erotic imagery
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Holmes Poetry Prize
Solmaz Sharif recipient of the Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts.
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Bitch Magazine
Aja Monet’s My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter included on list of 13 Books You Should Read in July.
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The New York Times
Jenny Johnson and Jericho Brown featured alongside others in a reflection on poetry and art: America Today, in Vision and Verse.
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WNYC
Interview with Tracy K. Smith: I’m hoping to take the conversation around literature to places not always spots on a book tour.
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Poetry Foundation
Poem Talk with Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely featuring Kyoo Lee, Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, and Simone White.
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audioBoom
Memoirist Dani Shapiro spoke with host Kerri Miller about her latest, Hourglass, and the fragile strength of marriage.
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New Republic
Osama Alomar’s story collection The Teeth of the Comb looks at cruelty, compassion, and hope in the face of catastrophe.
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The Daily Beast
The death of Michael Brown informs ‘Antigone in Ferguson,’ a Theater of War production, performed in Brooklyn.
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Bustle
8 Tracy K. Smith Books to Help You Get to Know the New USPL, including her Pulitzer Prize winning collection Ordinary Light.
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Poetry Magazine
Business Wire
Collaboration between Theater of War and the Forum on Law, Culture & Society creates the premiere of: Theater of Law.
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The Washington Post
Charles Simic included in The Washington Post’s suggested list of Best Poetry to Read this Month.
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The Today Show
Dani Shapiro shares 5 secrets to marriage: kindness, friendship, the hot potato, the third thing, your own language.
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PBS Newshour
Newly appointed Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith shares 4 authors you need to read including Solmaz Sharif and Claudia Rankine.
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New York Times
The New York Times Books compiled 20 years of notable L.G.B.T.Q. books and their authors, including Mark Doty.
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Amazon Best Books
Amazon Books selects the best titles for every reader’s summer – this year includes George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo.
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Hollywood Reporter
George Saunders’ new pilot, Sea Oak starring Glenn Close, marks the Emmy winner’s return to scripted television.
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NYT Magazine
Terrance Hayes has been named the New York Times Magazine’s new Poetry Editor.
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All Things Considered
Listen to NPR interview with newly appointed United States Poet Laureate, Tracy K Smith.
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Forward Arts
Ocean Vuong shortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection for Night Sky with Exit Wounds.
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The Guardian
Read Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “Campaign” published exclusively with The Guardian.
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Poet Laureate
Congratulations to our very own Tracy K. Smith who was appointed 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States!
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Chicago Sun Times
Joy Harjo on how her Native American roots, her family, and her hardships lead her to where she is today.
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Salon Talks
Amber Tamblyn says being a mom in Trump’s America has “radically changed” her activist side.
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VICE Magazine
Garth Greenwell discusses queer literature with Vice, emphasizing how important its presence is to our society.
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Guernica Magazine
Osama Alomar on censorship and the safety of metaphor: I always used metaphors. Maybe this style protected me.
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Director’s Cut
Noah Hutton sits down with Wisconsin Public Television for a closer look at his film Deep Time.
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Poetry Foundation
Joy Harjo discusses the intersection of poetry and music, as well as women’s rights and Indigenous rights movements.
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Princess of Asturias
Polish essayist and poet Adam Zagajewski has been granted the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature.
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Bustle
Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky With Exit Wounds included among 11 Immigrant Authors Who Are Transforming Literature.
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Huffington Post
Anis Mojgani opened the WorkHuman 2017 conference with an invocation to bring the whole self to work.
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Deadline
Tobey Maguire to develop George Saunders’ short story Home as a feature film with author-screenwriter Patrick Ness.
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LARB Radio Hour
Mary Gaitskill in dialogue with LA Review of Books discusses psychology, drugs, writing, and politics.
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New York Times
City University of New York boasts prize-winning alum and star-studded faculty, including our very own Patricia Smith.
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SPOTLIGHT
Alliance of Women Film Journalists highlights Amber Tamblyn’s explorations of humanity and feminism.
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Folio Prize
Congratulations to Hisham Matar, winner of the 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize for his memoir, The Return.
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PBS News Hour
A segment on Juan Felipe Herrera, the power of words, and how he helps Chicago students find their voice through verse.
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SF Chronicle
Review of Marie Howe’s Magdalene: We cannot turn away as she explores the erotic and spiritual aspects of love.
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BBVA Foundation
Adam Zagajewski, rootlessness, and displacement – a reflection on a poet who writes to imagine a home.
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Freedom Fighting
Listen as Aja Monet discusses publishing, womanhood, and her collection My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter.
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LA Review of Books
Interview with Adam Zagajewski: Chance and intuition; my ideal book is between a knit structure and a chaotic ensemble.
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Vogue
Dani Shapiro on her memoir Hourglass: You’re going to suffer together—as well as experience tremendous joy.
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NYT Magazine
“Walking Home” A poem by Marie Howe: She said, I have never before been a soul on this earth./(It was cold. We were hungry.)
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The New York Times
Review of Amber Tamblyn’s directorial debut Paint it Black: a convention-defying film about how two women react to the same loss.
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The New Yorker
Ocean Vuong’s essay A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read: Our hands empty except for our hands.
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LA Review of Books
George Saunders and the LA Review of Books on writing and transcendence in conversation with Lincoln in the Bardo.
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Independent Creative
Ocean Vuong speaks with The Independent Creative on spirals, time, and being generous in your work.
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New York Times
Dani Shapiro’s Hourglass reviewed with other memoirs on the complex calisthenics of marriage.
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Smart Girls Blog
Read “Y for YES,”a poem by Amber Tamblyn: Yes, my abdomen opened/like an eye and I blinked you/into being.
NBC News
Dani Shapiro’s latest memoir Hourglass included in TODAY’s 12 must-read books of the spring.
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The New Yorker
Osama Alomar on The Teeth of the Comb and his topics of choice: human dignity, success, failure, equality, inequality.
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Fresh Air Interview
Mary Gaitskill speaks with Terry Gross about feminism, sexual assault, and Somebody With a Little Hammer.
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Ruth Lilly Prize
Congratulations to Joy Harjo, recipient of the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement and contribution to poetry!
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Hyperallergic
NYC Artist in Residence Bryan Doerries brings audience to church with a Theater of War production of MLK’s final sermon.
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Publishers Weekly
Writer and educator Philip Schultz on how his passion for writing lead to his second-calling: teaching.
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the guardian
A review of Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds: It is the frequency on which these poems exist that matters, their urgency.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders on public and private spheres of suffering and his list of books for solace in an age of rancor.
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Power of Poetry
Juan Felipe Herrera discusses the power of poetry and his work with Chicago Public Schools with Chicago Tonight.
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Slate Magazine
Listen to Sarah Manguso discuss her latest, 300 Arguments, a collection of aphorisms for modern times.
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Literary Hub
Aja Monet’s My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter included in 15 Books to Read this May: Monet more than rises; she stays aloft.
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Personal Poetry
Several poets, including Marie Howe and Marilyn Nelson, offer New York City a surprise in Grand Central Terminal: poetry!
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Nylon
An interview with Aja Monet whose powerful activism is illustrated in My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter.
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300 Arguments
An interview with Sarah Manguso on twitter, aphorisms, and exposition: Dig into the shame.
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New York Times
Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls partner in this expression examining the state of surveillance and what it means to be human.
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Hourglass
NPR reviews Dani Shapiro’s memoir Hourglass: it is a clear-eyed inspection of the slow cracks certain to develop in a long marriage.
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Hyperallergic
An interview with Adam Zagajewski on creativity: I have this mystical notion there’s this energy in music and poetry and painting.
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Washington Post
A review of Jorie Graham’s 12th collection of poetry Fast and Marie Howe’s latest Magdalene: Poems.
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Pulitzer Prize
Congratulations to Hisham Matar, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his memoir The Return!
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the guardian
Simon Armitage’s latest The Unaccompanied reviewed by the guardian: Luminous and Unsettling.
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Guggenheim Fellow
Claudia Rankine awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of Poetry.
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Poetry Breaks
Charles Simic sits down and discusses his writing process with the Academy of American Poets and Leita Luchetti.
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The Boston Globe
Review of Dani Shapiro’s memoir Hourglass: She has never written anything as raw, dark, or brave as Hourglass.
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NYT Bestseller
Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers list in Paperback Nonfiction.
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NPR Books
Juan Felipe Herrera sat down with NPR for a reading of his work and a discussion of his craft.
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LA Review of Books
Review of Mary Gaitskill’s essay collection: her responses are so deeply intelligent, so idiosyncratic yet insightful.
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Books of the Times
NYTimes reviews Mary Gaitskill’s Somebody With a Little Hammer: a formidable collection of essays.
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The Guardian
Listen as The Guardian talks with short-story master George Saunders about his debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.
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Huffington Post
Diane Ackerman discusses her book made movie The Zookeeper’s Wife and her love of poetry, prose, and nature.
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Magdalene: Poems
Marie Howe speaks to PBS about her collection: “I’m very interested in healing the split between the sacred and the sexual.”
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PBS News Hour
PBS News Hour and Paul Muldoon discuss The Picnic, a monthly show held at the Irish Arts Center in New York.
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Zookeeper’s Wife
The feature film based on Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife starring Jessica Chastain released in theaters today!
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PEN America
Hisham Matar awarded the inaugural PEN Book Award for his memoir The Return at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony.
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Huffington Post
Mary Gaitskill speaks with the Huffington Post about rape culture and her new essay collection Somebody with a Little Hammer.
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Magdalene: Poems
Marie Howe’s fourth collection of poetry, Magdalene: Poems, released by W. W. Norton & Company today!
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Bobbitt Prize
Claudia Rankine receives the 2017 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for her book Citizen: An American Lyric.
the guardian
Simon Armitage says: “Language is my enemy – I spend my life battling with it.”
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NYT Magazine
“You’re so quiet you’re almost tomorrow.” NYT Magazine analyzes a line taken from one of Ocean Vuong’s poems.
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SF Chronicle
Sarah Manguso’s 300 Arguments: an edgy sassiness, and a dropout mentality that makes literature from failure.
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Orwell Prize
Congratulations to Hisham Matar who was longlisted for this years Orwell Prize for Books for his memoir The Return.
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300 Arguments
More of Less: In Sarah Manguso’s romance with concision, she nearly writes off writing.
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NY Times Opinion
In Hisham Matar’s essay, Books Can Take You Places Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You To Go he tells how literature is central to both resistance and liberty.
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Power of Empathy
George Saunders with UK’s 4News: how our divided nation holds tolerance and the ability to talk with those who disagree.
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The Analyst
CBC Radio talks with Molly Peacock about her the decades-long relationship with her therapist and how it entered a new chapter.
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Review of The Analyst
Quill and Quire says everyone can gain from Molly Peacock’s exploration of human connection and creativity.
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Windham-Campbell
Congratulations to Carolyn Forche, one of eight to receive the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize!
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KCUR
Listen as best selling author Francine Prose explains her thoughts on the importance of the written word.
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The New Yorker Video
Claudia Rankine joins Salman Rushdie & Tony Kushner about bigotry among Trump voters and political apathy in America.
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The Guardian
A series of instincts, thousands of tiny adjustments, hundreds of drafts: George Saunders on the real process of writers.
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The Washington Post
The U.S. poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, speaks with The Washington Post on what America should be reading.
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New Yorker Videos
Watch a breaking down of Tracy K. Smith’s poem “Solstice” with an emphasis on poetry as a refuge.
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New York Times
Bryan Doerries, the artistic director of Theater of War, named New York City Artist in Residence.
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NYT Bestseller
Congratulations to George Saunders whose Lincoln In the Bardo is the #1 New York Times Bestseller!
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NYT Bestseller
Congratulations to Diane Ackerman whose novel The Zookeeper’s Wife topped on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list!
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The Rumpus
A conversation with George Saunders about Lincoln In the Bardo, spirituality, and the importance of character in today’s world.
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2017 PEN Award
Congratulations to Simon Armitage the 2017 winner of the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
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Publishers Weekly
Ocean Vuong listed in top ten essential books about the immigrant experience by Publishers Weekly.
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300 Arguments
A review of Sarah Manguso’s latest book of essays by NPR: a book of aphorisms, there are no memories, just artifacts, and they’re all lying.
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360 VR Video
A virtual reality movie produced by The New York Times, based on Lincoln in the Bardo, the new novel by George Saunders.
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Trumpian Rhetoric
George Saunders discusses Lincoln in the Bardo, literary processes, and life under the language of Trump with gothamist.
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Poets & Writers
George Saunders featured on the cover of Poets & Writers’ March/April 2017 issue.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunder’s first novel – a masterpiece unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night with a chorus of voices – released today!
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NCPR
Clean lines, Bowie tunes and bigger hearts: Pulitzer-winning poet Tracy K Smith shares hope for the future.
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300 Arguments
The New Republic reviews Sarah Manguso’s collection of essays: (Manguso’s) aphorisms feel powerful in our age of alternative facts.
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New York Times
Cristina Garcia listed in 25 Great Books by Refugees alongside Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Vladimir Nabokov.
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An Eve with Eileen
Myles on relationships, tampons, and their dad’s sex life, among many other things as discussed with The Oxonian Review.
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The New Yorker
Read the The Infinite by Charles Simic: “The infinite yawns and keeps yawning. / Is it sleepy?”
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Dual Identities
Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera emphasizes and celebrates his dual immigrant, migrant identity in this article.
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Who is Josh Fox?
Donald Trump’s Dakota Access Pipeline ruling is sparking new protests, read how our very own Josh Fox is organizing movements.
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On Being Interview
Could we learn to talk about whiteness? Eula Biss discusses the urgency of this conversation with Krista Tippet.
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PEN Awards
Congratulations to our 2017 PEN Literary Awards finalists: Hisham Matar, Patrick Phillips, Jamaal May and Simon Armitage.
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Split this Rock
Richard Blanco pens a new poem for America, read his “Declaration for Inter-dependence” here.
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Theater of War
Listen to actor Paul Giamatti and director Bryan Doerries discuss Antigone in Baltimore.
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The New Yorker
Claudia Rankine on her project the Racial Imaginary Institute: “We’re spending a lot of energy just trying to stay human.”
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Dream Defender
Aja Monet performed her powerful poem for thousands at the Women’s March on Washington, watch here.
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Native Arts
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation announced Joy Harjo will serve on the national non-profit’s Board of Directors.
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The Return
What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return? Hisham Matar’s memoir seeks answers in post-Gaddafi Libya.
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BOMB Magazine
Danniel Schoonebeek’s Trébuchet positively reviewed: a reminder to revolt and to dissent.
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Golden Thread
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s play to be produced in San Francisco: a fiercely funny dive into the absurdity of the immigrant experience.
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NBCC Awards
Congratulations to the National Book Critics Circle 2016 Awards finalists, including our own Hisham Matar.
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City of Bones
Kwame Dawes‘ new collection of poetry, City of Bones: A Testament, is out this week.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders’ new novel boasts a star studded cast for its audiobook, including Julianne Moore and Ben Stiller.
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Hourglass
Publisher’s Weekly reviews Dani Shapiro’s latest memoir: “Shapiro beautifully weaves together her own moving language.”
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2017 Award
Congratulations to Philip Schultz who has been awarded the 2017 Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in the Literary Arts.
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Yorkshire Park
Simon Armitage returns to the location of his first-ever poetry reading to celebrate the location’s 40th anniversary.
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Poetry: 2017
Aja Monet’s My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, included on Bustle’s list of Most Anticipated Poetry Collections of 2017.
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curve
Eileen Myles discusses her rise to fame with humor, while offering analysis of the constructs influencing mainstream attention.
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Academy Chancellor
Congratulations to Forrest Gander who was named by the Academy of American Poets as one of their newest Chancellors.
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Academy Chancellor
Congratulations to Terrance Hayes who was named by the Academy of American Poets as one of their newest Chancellors.
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OBE Literature Award
Aminatta Forna has been awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s 2017 New Year’s Honours List.
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Nonfiction: 2017
Dani Shapiro’s upcoming memoir, Hourglass, included on Bustle’s list of the 15 most anticipated nonfiction books of 2017.
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Robert Creeley Award
We are proud to announce Marie Howe has been chosen as the 17th annual Robert Creeley Award Winner.
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Global Thinkers 2016
Congratulations to Ocean Vuong who was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of their leading global thinkers.
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Bustle
Mary Gatiskill’s upcoming collection of essays listed among the 15 most anticipated nonfiction works of 2017.
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2017 PEN Awards
Congratulations to Patrick Phillips, Jamaal May and Simon Armitage who were longlisted for the 2017 Literary Awards.
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National Book Award
Blue Flower Arts welcomes and congratulates Daniel Borzutzky, winner of the National Book Award in Poetry.
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Washington Post
George Saunders’ upcoming novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, listed as one of 26 books necessary to start the new year.
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NDAP Ethics Crisis
Elders kept in cages. Demonstrators maced and abused. Standing Rock is a character test, Josh Fox writes in this article. One America is failing.
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PBS Newshour
Poets Anis Mojgani and Aimee Nezhukumatathil are included in this stunning portrait of Walt Whitman’s legacy.
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Trébuchet
Publishers Weekly reviews Danniel Schoonebeek’s most recent collection of poems: “a searing convergence of political commentary and folk tale.”
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Letter from Li-Young
Li-Young Lee grapples with questions of consciousness, humanity, and art in this internal-dialogue response to proposed questions from Humans & Nature.
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Mister Monkey
High praise from the New York Times Book Review for Francine Prose’s new book: “so fresh and new it’s almost giddy.”
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Election Year
The Boton Globe publishes a poem by Richard Blanco offering a reflection for voters as the polls close.
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Hercules in Brooklyn
Bryan Doerries production in Brooklyn of Hercules’ battles inspired a challenging discussion on gun violence.
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Responsibility in Haiti
Jonathan M. Katz examines the relationship between the Clintons, the U.S., and Haiti in this piece for Slate Magazine.
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Red Moon: A Series
Fox network is developing a sociopolitical soap based on the novel Red Moon by Benjamin Percy.
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Fresh Air
Listen to Patrick Phillips discuss his book Blood at the Root with Terri Gross on NPR.
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007
Benjamin Percy promises “nifty gadgets, colorful villains, and dangerous seductions” in his James Bond series for Dynamite Entertainment.
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Genius Award
Claudia Rankine receives a MacArthur Award for Citizen which illuminates “emotional and psychic tensions…of many living in 21st century America.”
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PBS Newshour
Jennine Capo Crucet discusses the struggles and navigations of being a first-generation college student with PBS Newshour.
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The Poem is You
Stephen Burt guides readers in understanding four recent decades of American poetry in his latest book, published September 2016.
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Shared Discomfort
Bryan Doerries discusses his troupe’s Pittsburgh performance of excerpts from the play “Tape” with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
National Book Awards
Congratulations to Donald Hall whose poetry collection The Selected Poems of Donald Hall was long-listed for the award.
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Theater of War
The New Yorker‘s feature review of Bryan Doerries‘ Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans.
NPR Weekend Edition
Bryan Doerries discusses his politically charged production of ‘Antigone,’ performed in Ferguson, Mo.
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Discomfort = Bias
Claudia Rankine explains why discomfort is the world’s most underestimated resource–in Foreign Policy.
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Latino Book Awards
Congrats to Jennine Capo Crucet–winner of the best Latino-themed fiction book, Make Your Home Among Strangers.
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ACA Fellowship
Congratulations to Natasha Tretheway–recipient of the Academy of American Poet’s 2016 Fellowship.
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Cuban American Vote
Jennine Capo Crucet writes Convincing My Cuban Mom to Vote for Hillary for the New York Times.
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Home to Humanity
LA Review of Books explores Linda Gregerson’s latest collection of poetry, Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2014.
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LA Review of Books
LA Review of Books looks back to Linda Gregerson‘s second collection of poetry, The Woman Who Died In Her Sleep (1996).
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Storytelling in Controlled Spaces
Patricia Smith talks to NPR‘s Dave Becker about the role of the poet in a modern context and storytelling in poetic form.
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Kenyon Review
Linda Gregerson talks to Kenyon Review about revisiting Ovid, throwing her voice, and poems that remain open to interference.
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Poems in the Air
Simon Armitage speaks to The Chronicle about his latest project, celebrating special places with poems you can’t read.
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Motor City Verse
Jamaal May and Composer Andrew Harrison collaborate on project that folds poetry from Hum into original music, as reported by Canberra Times.
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U.N. Admits Guilt
After years of denial, the UN confesses guilt in Haiti cholera epidemic. Jonathan M. Katz, who witnessed events firsthand, writes for the NY Times.
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Blood at the Root
Publisher’s Weekly reviews Patrick Phillips‘ gripping examination of American racism, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America.
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Exploring Trauma
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh discusses how to write about trauma both from his own journey and as a writing professor–for The New York Times.
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The Pearl
The Sydney Morning Herald reviews Simon Armitage‘s translation of 14th century allegory, The Pearl.
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Talking Policy
The World Policy Blog interviews George Saunders, broadening his interpretation of the Trump campaign.
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The Nation
Katha Pollitt talks to The Nation about sexual harassment in the office, Fox News & Donald Trump.
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Culture Play
Angela Flournoy talks pop culture, Instagram, and hints about topics in her next book, with The Undefeated.
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Profile: Eileen Myles
Wonderland magazine profiles trailblazing American poet Eileen Myles.
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USA Today
The Democrat & Chronicle highlights Cornelius Eady‘s new work in a piece about recent turmoil in Oakland.
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Angela in Australia
The Daily Review interviews Angela Flournoy, discussing The Turner House, her writing process and storytelling.
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The Guardian
Chris Abani speaks to The Guardian about contributing to a more diverse representation of the African continent.
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NPR Central CA
Juan Felipe Herrera was recently appointed for a second term as the US Poet Laureate. He speaks to NPR about his vision for this year.
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VCU Cabell Award
Angela Flournoy earns VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for The Turner House, as reported by The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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NPR’s Code Switch
Mat Johnson’s commentary about the effect of turbulent encounters with law enforcement on parenting.
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“Bullet Points” Poem
Jericho Brown‘s searing poem in the Atlanta Journal takes on the fatal police shootings of black men.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker features Marie Howe’s Low Tide, Late August in print and audio.
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Praise for The Mare
The Guardian lauds Mary Gaitskill’s The Mare as “bold, dramatic and deeply unsettling.” Mary discusses the novel with Guernica.
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Kwame Dawes Poems
Oxford American Magazine Summer 2016 issue features three poems by Kwame Dawes.
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Myles on the ’70s
Eileen Myles Talks to The Civilians about the 70’s, Patti Smith, and “Poetry Voice.”
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The Guardian
Mary Gaitskill talks to The Guardian about writing, parenting and teaching.
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Stop and Frisk
Claudia Rankine on race and reactions to gun violence in America with NPR Weekend Edition.
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A Fragile America
George Saunders examines “the Trump appeal” for The New Yorker and emerging cultural implications with NPR’s Weekend Edition.
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@ the Crossroads
Juan Felipe Herrera reacts to recent violence with @ the Crossroads— A Sudden American Poem–as covered by the Los Angeles Times.
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NYT Dot Earth
Filmmaker Josh Fox teaches the New York Times video blog Dot Earth how to cope with global climate change.
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Green Arrow #2
Benjamin Percy taps Dante Alighieri for Green Arrow #2, as reviewed by Newsarama.
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Teen Opinion
How Simon Armitage awakened a teenage boy’s interest in poetry, for The Guardian.
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One Pulse One Poem
Read Richard Blanco‘s poem in the Miami Herald — a tribute to the shooting in Orlando.
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Aspen Public Radio
Rowan Ricardo Phillips shares his experiences as educator and poet with Aspen Public Radio.
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Lammys
Eileen Myles received Lambda’s Pioneer Award for contributions to the LGBT literary community.
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Cuban Overture
Richard Blanco’s lyrics for Gershwin’s Cuban Overture will be performed by the Philadelphia Boys Choir this August in Cuba.
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Lucas Prize
Adam Zagajewski receives the U of Tübingen’s Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize for achievements in theology, intellectual history and research, and philosophy.
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Green Arrow
Ben Percy Interview with DC Entertainment about the Relaunch of Green Arrow.
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Lifetime Recognition
Adam Zagajewski wins The Griffin Trust’s Lifetime Recognition Award that pays tribute to the work and achievements of international poets.
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Writing About War
NPR explores the literature of war with Brian Turner and others who were involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Iseman Professor
Claudia Rankine named the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale.
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Becoming Jericho
Read Jericho Brown‘s personal journey: how he endured a violent childhood, got a new name—and a Guggenheim.
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PBS Newshour
Peter Balakian explains to Newshour’s Jeffrey Brown how poetry helped him cope as he discovered the trauma of his history.
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Armenian Award
Peter Balakian is awarded Armenia’s 2015 Presidential award for significant contribution to the process of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Open Source Radio
Christopher Lydon talks to Eileen Myles about the democratic virtue of individualism: in gender and sexuality, politics and aesthetics.
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Lambda Literary
Eileen Myles will receive the Lambda Literary Arts Pioneer Award on June 6th.
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NYT Book Review
NYT Book Review applauds Young‘s Blue Laws, saying “The formal economy of Young’s best work attunes us to the grammar of living and sorrow alike.”
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Lust and Wonder
“It’s an odd thing, watching a memoirist grow up on the page,” writes NPR on Augusten Burroughs‘ newest book.
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George Saunders
The news is out! In 2017, George Saunders will publish his first full-length novel, Lincoln in the Bardo.
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Salon
Review in Salon of Josh Fox‘s documentary How to Let Go of the World: “a sprawling chronicle of despair — and hope.”
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Mud City Journal
Michaelsun Knapp interviews Aimee Nezhukumatathil for the Mud City Journal.
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Wesleyan Argus
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh talks writing, empathy, and Pittsburgh at Wesleyan’s Shapiro Creative Writing Center.
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Griffin Poetry Prize
Joy Harjo‘s Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings shortlisted for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Griffin Poetry Prize
Rowan Ricardo Phillips‘s Heaven shortlisted for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Paterson Poetry Prize
Mark Doty‘s Deep Lane wins the 2016 Paterson Poetry Prize from Passaic County Community College’s Poetry Center.
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LA Times Book Prize
Marilyn Nelson wins the LA Times Book Prize Awards in Young Adult Literature for My Seneca Village.
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LA Times Book Prize
Jorie Graham wins the LA Times Book Prize Awards in Poetry for From the New World.
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Guggenheim
Congratulations Jericho Brown, Stephen Burt, and Brian Turner all awarded 2016 Guggenheim Fellowships for Poetry.
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Heaven
Rowan Ricardo Phillips wins the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for poetry recognizing contributions to cultural diversity.
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The Writer’s Almanac
Ted Kooser interviewed by The Writer’s Almanac in honor of National Poetry Month.
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Robert Kirsch Award
Juan Felipe Herrera presented the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement at the 36th L.A. Times Book Prizes.
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Blue Laws
Harper’s: “Young‘s book tells a story about how history has been written on African-American bodies, and imagines the voices that have spoken back.”
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Kevin Young Review
Flavorwire: “Blue Laws feels like an extract from a lost American hymnal, one that contains all heaven’s news, good or bad.”
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The New Yorker
George Saunders interview with The New Yorker on authorial bullying, parenting, and consciousness after death.
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American Ace
Kirkus reviews: Nelson‘s “meticulous verse is the perfect vehicle to convey the devastating fragility of racial and familial identity in America.”
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NBCCA
Terrance Hayes and Roxana Robinson nominated for the NBCCA in Poetry and Excellence in Reviewing, respectively.
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Democracy Now!
Josh Fox interview with Democracy Now! on the release of his newest documentary How To Let Go of the World.
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Notable Books
Joy Harjo’s Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings named to the American Library Association’s 2016 Notable Books List.
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Huffpost Religion
Gregory Orr named one of twelve awe-inspiring poets to read as medicine for your soul by Huffpost Religion.
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The Telegraph
The Telegraph revisits Citizen upon the eve of the TS Eliot Prize: “Rankine’s voice shimmers with wisdom and fury.”
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audioBoom
Amy Bloom discusses her novel Lucky Us with audioBoom along with sisters, mothers, fathers and redemption.
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LA Review of Books
LA Review of Books published a series of essays about Claudia Rankine’s Citizen to mark the one-year anniversary of its publication.
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Buzzfeed
Tony Hoagland, Juan Felipe Herrera, Terrance Hayes, and Nick Flynn praised by Buzzfeed for having some of the Best Poetry Books of 2015.
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The Guardian
Claudia Rankine speaks with The Guardian about Blackness in the white imagination.
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2015 Best Poetry
Marilyn Hacker‘s collection A Stranger’s Mirror is named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2015 by the New York Times.
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2015 Best Poetry
Linda Gregerson‘s collection Prodigal is named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2015 by the New York Times.
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NPR Fresh Air
Rick Moody discusses and reads a passage from his newest novel with Teri Gross on NPR Fresh Air.
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Booklist
Bonnie Jo Campbell‘s Mothers, Tell Your Daughters named Booklists’ Top of the List for Adult Fiction in 2015.
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Artist Trust
David Shields is awarded the 2015 James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award for demonstrating exceptional originality.
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The Late Show
George Saunders reads a bedtime story on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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PEN Lit Awards
Charles Simic and Rowan Ricardo Phillips longlisted for the 2016 PEN Literary Awards in Art of the Essay and Open Book, respectively.
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NYT Magazine
“I’m more compelled by a freedom that would allow me to deserve what I have,” writes Eula Biss in her article “White Debt“.
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Sundance Film Fest
Josh Fox‘s new film How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change) premieres at Sundance 2016!
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Notable Books of 2015
Claudia Rankine, Jorie Graham, Mat Johnson, Mary Gaitskill, and Tracy K Smith all on the NY Time’s 100 Notable Books of 2015.
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NY Times Magazine
George Saunders and Jennifer Egan, both known for their mind-bending imaginations, discuss the business of envisioning the future.
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Hotels of N. America
Opposed to backstory, Moody claims “I am interested in what the character is doing now, in the present time of the narrative,” to The Rumpus.
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Citizen
Woman reads from Citizen, Claudia Rankine‘s award-winning book on racial aggression, during a Donald Trump speech.
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New York Times
“In Hotels of North America, Rick Moody Examines the Middle-Aged Male in Free Fall,” reviews NT Times.
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NYT Magazine
“In her new novel, Gaitskill delves into the most frightening subject of all: real connection,” said the NYT Magazine.
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TS Eliot Prize
Claudia Rankine and Mark Doty both shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry.
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Los Angeles Times
Jill Bialosky interview on writing, editing and her novel The Prize in the Los Angeles Times.
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NBA Finalists
Terrance Hayes and Tracy K Smith finalists for the 2015 National Book Awards in Poetry and Nonfiction, respectively.
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Mothers, Tell Your Daughters
“Like the women in her stories, Campbell’s prose can be watchful and viscerally alive,” reviews the NY Times.
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The Atlantic
Gregerson‘s Prodigal “gathers work from nearly 40 years of a career as remarkable as any in contemporary American poetry” says The Atlantic.
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NYT Magazine
Read Valzhyna Mort‘s article on Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich in the New York Times Magazine.
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Writer’s Almanac
Donald Hall‘s Her Long Illness and The Widow both spotlighted in The Writer’s Almanac.
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Deep Time
Straight raves, “What Hutton achieves goes beyond a mere environmental-protest film and feels more like an epic end-time poem.”
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The Prize
Selected as a Sunday Book Review Editor’s Choice, Jill Bialosky’s The Prize shows Blind Faith in the Power of Beauty.
Conflict Resolution
“The joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human” in Joy Harjo‘s newest poetry collection.
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Roll Deep
“The poems in Major Jackson‘s Roll Deep are a testament both to memory and renewal; the human ability to persevere,” reviews The Rumpus.
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Washington Post
“Herrera, the first Mexican American USPL, made it clear he’s bringing a new sense of wonder and drama to the position,” writes the Washington Post.
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NBA Poetry
Marilyn Hacker, Terrance Hayes, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips all longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry!
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NPR Morning Edition
Juan Felipe Herrera tells NPR his migrant childhood was like “Living in Literature Every Day.”
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Wallace Stevens
Joy Harjo is awarded the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, which recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.
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Lenore Marshall
Kevin Young won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poetry published in 2014.
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Fellowship
Marie Howe received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship for her distinguished poetic achievement.
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Learning to Drive
Katha Pollitt’s essay Learning to Drive now a feature film starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley.
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BBC Culture
Joy Harjo‘s and Juan Felipe Herrera‘s newest poetry collections selected for the Ten Books to Read in September.
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Tony Hoagland
In Tony Hoagland‘s Application for Release from the Dream, “he reminds us that even when dreams are dashed, joy sometimes interferes.”
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Prodigal
“Gregerson is a poet of praise” says The New Yorker, “her poems renegotiate the terms of human happiness and safety.”
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NY Times
Read Claudia Rankine‘s article The Meaning of Serena Williams on tennis and black excellence.
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Literary Hub
Jill Bialosky speaks of the challenges to wearing two hats in her article When The Editor Becomes The Writer.
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NY Times
Richard Blanco named the first education ambassador for the Academy of American Poets!
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Washington Post
Shining reviews for three of our authors with fall poetry releases: Juan Felipe Herrera, Tony Hoagland, and Major Jackson.
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Cuba Embassy
Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco to read a new poem for the US embassy opening in Havana.
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The Creative Talk
“Stories are there to humanize,” says Etgar Keret in an interview with The Creative Talk.
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New York Times
Dominique Browning puts yesterday’s worries behind her as she declares I’m Too Old for This.
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DAAD Fellowship
Nikola Madzirov is awarded a 2016 DAAD writer’s fellowship for a 12-month stay in Berlin.
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Roll Deep
Major Jackson explores a range of topics from human intimacy to war in the confident and radiant poems from his new collection.
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The Prize
Jill Bialosky‘s new novel “explores the complicated terrain of relationships, as well as the inspiration behind creativity,” reviews Publishers Weekly.
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Natasha Trethewey
reviews in the Washington Post and discusses on PBS NewsHour Harper Lee’s newly released novel.
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Sunday Book Review
Etgar Keret reveal Kafka as his favorite writer in this interview with the New York Times.
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Divedapper
Aimee Nezhukumatathil declares she’s “not sorry to write about wonder & joy” in her interview with Divedapper.
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My Feelings
The New York Times calls Nick Flynn’s new poems “buzzing, stinging plunges into the complicated colony of self.”
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The Millions
Mary Gaitskill‘s The Mare and Bonnie Jo Campbell‘s Mothers, Tell Your Daughters named to The Million’s Most Anticipated.
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Forward Prize
Paul Muldoon and Claudia Rankine both shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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NYT Magazine
Read Claudia Rankine‘s powerful article ‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning.’
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Oxford Professor
Simon Armitage chosen as Oxford’s Professor of Poetry, second only in prestige to the poet laureate according to The Guardian.
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Village Voice
Aja Monet uses poetry as a tool to protest violence and racial injustice, as reported by the Village Voice.
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Bridges to/from Cuba
Richard Blanco launches a writing project to lift what he calls Cuba’s ’emotional embargo,’ as told to the AP.
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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.”
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New USPL
We congratulate Juan Felipe Herrera on being named the next United States Poet Laureate!
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That Thing You Do
David Shield‘s new book, an autobiography as told to him by Samantha Matthews, available now.
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My Feelings
Nick Flynn’s newest collection listed as one of Washington Post’s Best 3 Poetry Books for June.
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NY Times Style
Why on earth would we get rid of our wonderful things? asks Dominique Browning in her article Let’s Celebrate the Art of Clutter.
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Sunday Book Review
Mat Johnson’s new novel, featured in the NYT Sunday Book Review, tells a semi-autobiographical story about race and mixed-race in America.
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O. Henry Prize
Molly Antopol‘s My Grandmother Tells Me This Story wins The O. Henry Prize for best short fiction of the year.
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Lambda Award
Richard Blanco‘s The Prince of Los Cocuyos wins the Lambda Literary Award for Memoir.
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My Feelings
Nick Flynn‘s newest poetry collection contains quicksilver realms of emotional energy—from grief and panic to gratitude and understanding.
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Sunday Book Review
Dominique Browning reviews upcoming gardening books for The New York Times.
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Loving Day
Mat Johnson‘s newest novel takes “a satirical slant on racial identities”, as reviewed by The New York Times.
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The Wading Pool
Ted Kooser praises George Bilgere‘s poem for covering all the years from childhood to middle age in American Life in Poetry.
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Neustadt Prize
Carolyn Forche announced as a finalist for the 24th Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
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Green Arrow
Benjamin Percy interview in Newsarama on his revamping of DC’s superhero comic Green Arrow in June!
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Proving My Blackness
Mat Johnson article on his black heritage in the New York Times Magazine.
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The Dead Lands
Benjamin Percy‘s new novel slouches toward dystopia in the review by The Washington Post.
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Essay in Elle
Dani Shapiro on her relationship to criticism: What Do You Do When the Internet Hates You?
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Ask For a Poem
Marie Howe and co. write poems on demand in celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Guggenheim
Thomas Sayers Ellis and Rowan Ricardo Phillips both awarded 2015 Guggenheim fellowships in poetry.
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LA Times Book Prize
Claudia Rankine‘s Citizen wins the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.
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What Lies Beneath
Mark Doty interview on his new collection Deep Lane with Shelf Awareness.
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‘N’em
Jericho Brown‘s poem from The New Testament featured in the New York Times Magazine.
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PEN Shortlist
Molly Antopol and Claudia Rankine shortlisted for 2015 PEN Literary Awards!
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IMPAC Dublin
Roxana Robinson’s Sparta is one of 10 books shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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AWP Bly Reading
Listen to Robert Bly reading Keeping Our Small Boat Afloat at AWP, with our own Alison Granucci at his side.
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Shapiro AWP Article
Dani Shapiro gives love to the BFA booth in her dispatch from AWP for the New Yorker’s Blog.
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Deep Time
Noah Hutton‘s newest film wins a special jury award for best documentary at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale.
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Hurston/Wright
Chris Abani and Claudia Rankine nominated for the Hurston/Wright 2015 Legacy Award in Fiction and Poetry, respectively.
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Dead Lands
The Star Tribune calls Benjamin Percy‘s newest thriller a cleverly crafted imagining of the journey of Lewis and Clark as a post-apocalyptic quest.
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The New Testament
Jericho Brown‘s newest poetry collection named one of The Believer’s top 5 Books of the Year.
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AWP Minneapolis
Visit Blue Flower Arts at Booth 600 and check out our exciting events! A book signing with Nick Flynn & Claudia Rankine and a tribute to Robert Bly.
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How To Be Drawn
Now available, Terrance Hayes‘ fifth poetry collection explores how we see and are seen.
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Books of the Week
Terrance Hayes‘ How To Be Drawn and Tracy K. Smith‘s Ordinary Light highlighted in Publishers Weekly.
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Galaxies Inside
Stephen Burt gives a stunning profile of Terrance Hayes in the New York Times Magazine.
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On my Coffee Cup
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has a wonderful new essay about his name in The New Yorker.
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PEN Literary Awards
Molly Antopol and Claudia Rankine longlisted for the Robert W. Bingham Prize and PEN Open Book Award, respectively.
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PEN Ten Interview
Mat Johnson interviewed by PEN America on the responsibility of a writer and more.
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NBCC Award
Congratulations to Claudia Rankine for winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for her collection Citizen: An American Lyric!
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A Person of Limited Palette
Ted Kooser‘s poem from his newest collection Splitting an Order featured in The Writer’s Almanac.
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Bluebrain Film
Noah Hutton talks to Alex Witt from MSNBC about his 15-year film chronicling the mapping the human brain.
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Heaven Review
Rowan Ricardo Phillip‘s Heaven, building on The Ground’s recognition of the expanse, reviewed in 32 Poems.
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From The New World
Jorie Graham’s selected poems, praised in the New York Times, show how she moved the art form forward.
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Totally Wrong Trailer
View the trailer for David Shields’ I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, a James Franco film.
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Long Way Home
Richard Blanco, Edwidge Danticat, and Diane Guerrero discuss their cultural legacies on NPR.
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The Players
Jill Bialosky describes the rich and universal story that is modern motherhood in her new book of poems.
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New Poetry Column
Natasha Trethewey’s first weekly poetry column in the NY Times Magazine!
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Poetry is a Virus
Flavorwire reviews Jorie Graham‘s latest book, From the New World: Poems 1976-2014.
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On Immunity
Mark Zuckerberg chooses Eula Biss and her book On Immunity for Facebook’s Year of Books.
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NY Times Bestseller
Claudia Rankine‘s Citizen makes The New York Times Bestseller list in Nonfiction.
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Jericho on PBS NewsHour
Jericho Brown looks back at Saturdays spent cutting grass on PBS NewsHour.
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Tracy K Smith
Tracy K. Smith and her new memoir, Ordinary Light, featured in Poets and Writers Magazine.
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Green Arrow
Benjamin Percy to take over the writing of the DC Green Arrow comic book series!
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Deep Time
Noah Hutton‘s new film Deep Time, about the ND oil boom, to premiere at SXSW festival.
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PEN New England
Diane Ackerman‘s The Human Age awarded the 2015 PEN Henry David Thoreau Prize for literary excellence in nature writing.
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NBCC Award Finalists
Claudia Rankine, Christian Wiman, and Eula Biss are finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards.
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Kingsley/Kate Tufts
Congratulations to Kevin Young and Jamaal May, finalists for the Kingsley/Kate Tufts Poetry and Discovery Award.
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New Chancellors
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
Heedful, hard-won, head-turning, heartfelt, Paul Muldoon‘s new book of poems just released.
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More than Hurt
A review of the Baraka tribute album and interview with Thomas Sayers Ellis.
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Dame Carol Ann
The honor of being made a dame is bestowed upon the British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
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Cuban-American
Poet Richard Blanco reflects on normalized Cuba-US Relations on Radio Boston.
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Totally Wrong
David Shields‘ new release called “outrageously entertaining” by the Boston Globe.
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When The Fine Days
Donald Hall‘s poem featured in Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac.
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Bobbitt National Prize
Patricia Smith awarded the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry by the Library of Congress!
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Amiri’s Green Chim Chim-knees Growth Tribe
New song by Thomas Sayers Ellis featured in the Paris Review.
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NPR Best Books
NPR chooses books by Molly Antopol, Joshua Ferris, Marilyn Nelson, Francine Prose, and Claudia Rankine.
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Say Something NYC
Thanks to NYSPL Marie Howe for co-organizing the Say Something NYC Poetry Rally; w/ BFA poets Mark Doty, Cornelius Eady, Nick Flynn, Sapphire, and Patricia Smith, and others.
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NY bans fracking!
We honor Josh Fox and his tireless dedication. “This is as big as it gets. We just sent an uncompromising message across the whole wide world. Celebrate.”
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NAACP Nominees
Jericho Brown and Claudia Rankine nominated for the NAACP award for poetry.
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Turner Interview
Brian Turner interviewed in The Rumpus about My Life as a Foreign Country.
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Rankine on PBS NewsHour
Claudia Rankine on the violent deaths of black men for PBS NewsHour.
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One Gram Short
Etgar Keret‘s new short story, One Gram Short, featured in The New Yorker.
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Essays After Eighty
Searching essays that startle, move, and delight, pick up Donald Hall’s Essays after Eighty.
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Sparta Longlisted
Roxana Robinson‘s Sparta is longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublic Literary Award.
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Donald Hall Feature
Poets & Writers features a wonderful interview with Donald Hall in their latest issue.
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Shields on ESPN
David Shields talks to ESPN about James Franco’s film adaptation of Shields’s 1999 book Black Planet
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NPR Reviews Citizen
All Things Considered gives a beautiful review of Claudia Rankine‘s latest collection, Citizen.
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“Half-Light”
Read a new poem by Frank Bidart in the latest issue of The New Yorker, and listen to audio of Bidart reading the poem.
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The Trace
“An intense read” proclaims PW about Forrest Gander‘s new novel, “with meditative poems between chapters to complete the package.”
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“Heart Condition”
Jericho Brown reads “Heart Condition” from his new collection The New Testament in his interview with PBS NewsHour.
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Splitting An Order
Ted Kooser‘s new book of poems calls attention to the intimacies of life through commonplace objects and occurrences.
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Citizen
Citizen: An American Lyric, by National Book Award Finalist Claudia Rankine, is reviewed in the New Yorker.
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Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Katha Pollitt‘s new book is a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good.
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Los Cocuyos
Richard Blanco discusses The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, his funny and poignant memoir, on NPR.
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The Legacy of War
Listen to Brian Turner discussing My Life as a Foreign Country on NPR’s All Things Considered.
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NBA Longlist Fiction
Molly Antopol‘s debut story collection The UnAmericans is longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction.
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MacArthur “Genius”
Hearty congratulations to Terrance Hayes, recipient of the prestigious 2014 MacArthur Foundation Award!
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NBA Longlist Poetry
Claudia Rankine‘s new collection Citizen: An American Lyric is longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry.
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Brian Turner’s Memoir
Brian Turner‘s first memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, released on September 15, to critical acclaim.
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The New Testament
Jericho Brown‘s second collection, The New Testament, on the stands on September 16.
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Josh Fox Debuts New Production
Josh Fox debuts Solutions Grassroots on Sunday, September 21
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Man Booker Shortlist
Congratulation to Joshua Ferris on being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his new novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour!
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The Human Age
Diane Ackerman’s new nonfiction book The Human Age available on September 10th.
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Metaphysical Dog Wins PEN/Voelcker
Congratulations to Frank Bidart, winner of the 2014 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry from PEN America!
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A Memoir is Not a Status Update
Read Dani Shapiro’s new Cultural Comment essay in The New Yorker.
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Once in the West
Christian Wiman‘s latest book of poetry, Once in the West, available on September 9th.
Recommendation
Rowan Ricardo Phillips recommends Walt Whitman on NPR’s All Things Considered.
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Black Planet
David Shields’ book Black Planet to be turned into a movie directed by James Franco!
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Congratulations
Nikola Madzirov, Tracy K Smith, and Valzhyna Mort all featured on The Guardian’s list of Fifty Greatest Modern Love Poems.
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