Art Forum
Jericho Brown included among 2020 United States Artists Fellows alongside the likes of Hanif Abdurraqib and Edwidge Danticat.
Children of the Land
Congratulations to Marcelo Hernandez Castillo on the publication of his memoir Children of the Land!
Méndez Book Award
Carolyn Forché’s memoir of resistance wins 2019 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights.
NPR
Peruse NPR’s Favorite Books of 2019 including Tina Chang, Saidiya Hartman, Elizabeth Acevedo, Carolyn Forche, Joy Harjo, Jericho Brown, Bernardine Evaristo.
LitHub
Terrance Hayes, Dawn Lundy Martin, Claudia Rankine, Tracy K. Smith, and Natasha Trethewey included in 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade.
LitHub
Eula Biss’s On Immunity included in LitHub’s 10 Best Essay Collections of the Decade.
TIME
Jericho Brown’s The Tradition and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other included on list of 100 Must-Read Books of 2019.
LitHub
Meet the finalists for this week’s National Book Awards, including Jericho Brown and Carolyn Forche!
New York Times
Read Daniel Borzutzky’s opinion piece on the unrest in Chile and the danger of history repeating itself.
The New Yorker
Vijay Seshadri joins Kevin Young to read and discuss poems by Sylvia Plath.