Vanity Fair
Stephanie Burt on Taylor Swift, relatability, and her course at a college famous for being famous.
Kirkus Reviews
Deesha Philyaw launches a new podcast, Reckon True Stories, with Kiese Laymon.
Guggenheim Fellows
Congratulations to Airea D. Matthews and Mai Der Vang who were named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in Poetry.
NAACP
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo whose Family Lore won a NAACP, alongside the work of nominees Terrance Hayes and Nicole Sealey.
Windham-Campbell
Congratulations to m nourbeSe philip, who is among the recipients of the Windham Campbell Award for Poetry.
Poet Laureate
Kwame Dawes is the new Poet Laureate of Jamaica through 2024-2027.
poets.org
A new poem from Keetje Kuipers’ forthcoming Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, “Emesis.”
Publishers Weekly
Charif Shanahan’s Trace Evidence among 2024 National Book Critics Circle finalists.
ALA
Congratulations to Ibi Zoboi whose Nigeria Jones wins 2024 Coretta Scott King Book Award.
LiteraryHub
Read an excerpt from Bonnie Jo Campbell’s The Waters: “The town has a troubled soul.”