Poetry Society of Am
Congratulations to Erika Meitner who is the 2021 recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Cecil Hemley Memorial Award.
LA Times Book Prize
Deesha Philyaw among 2021 winners for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for her collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.
Guggenheim Fellows
Congratulations to Ellen Bass who was awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry!
Whiting Award
Congratulations to Ladan Osman, recipient of a 2021 Whiting Award for Poetry!
The New Yorker
Read Camille Dungy’s latest poem “Let Me”: “Let me tell you, America, this one last thing.”
The Guardian
Interview with Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo writing memoir about “never giving up.”
Vulture
Review of Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast Poetry Unbound: “Listening to the podcast is like descending into a bubble bath.”
The New Yorker
Review of Daniel Borzutzky’s latest: Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 does more than bear witness for posterity; it speaks of, and to, our moment.
NY Times
Interview with Elizabeth Acevedo: “People read like they eat. Sometimes we want comfort, sometimes we want to crack something open.”
BK Reader
Watch: Mahogany L. Browne reads at Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue unveiling in Brooklyn, NY.