Metaphysical Dog Wins PEN/Voelcker
Congratulations to Frank Bidart, winner of the 2014 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry from PEN America!
A Memoir is Not a Status Update
Read Dani Shapiro’s new Cultural Comment essay in The New Yorker.
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.
Black Planet
David Shields’ book Black Planet to be turned into a movie directed by James Franco!
Congratulations
Nikola Madzirov, Tracy K Smith, and Valzhyna Mort all featured on The Guardian’s list of Fifty Greatest Modern Love Poems.