National Humanities Medal
President Biden awarded a National Humanities Medal to Richard Blanco for work representing “a mosaic of our past, our present, and our future.”
Lambda Literary
Congratulations to all long listed for the Lambda Literary Awards, with a little extra confetti for Akil Kumarasamy, Bushra Rehman, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.
PBS Newshour
Check out this podcast, “How poetry lets you be so many things at once, with Chen Chen” wherever you listen.
The Offing
Read “Organized Decay” and other poems by Kimiko Hahn: “It’s true, too, that Ruin is formal— / a dart, a shadow.”
Maine Media
Through inspirational writing exercises and guidance from Beth Ann Fennelly, craft your story in this memoir workshop: Build Me a Hummingbird of Words.
Publishers Weekly
Review of Deborah Landau’s forthcoming Skeletons: “These poems unfurl a resonant commentary on loneliness and mortality.”
US Institute of War & Peace
Pádraig Ó Tuama knows artistic insight can speak directly to conflict, addressing important systemic factors such as identity, race, gender and ability.
WUSF
Listen to this interview with Brian Broome: “My story is probably one that Governor DeSantis would want to ban.”
PEN America
Congratulations to all those shortlisted for this year’s PEN America literary awards, especially Percival Everett and Chris Abani.
Brooklyn Rail
Akil Kumarasamy with John Keene: “There are many moments where we feel the weight of a lifetime in an instance.”