Recipe for Writing
Recipes can help bridge generations, reveal unexpected characteristics of a culture, or simply fill an afternoon. Write about a time you had to follow a recipe, whether it was familiar or foreign to...
View ArticleNaked Booksellers, Book Perfume, and More
Staff Roger Reeves on the AWP conference; thoughts on writing success and failure; a San Francisco housing project inspires poetry; and other news. Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the...
View ArticleRecipe for Writing
Recipes can help bridge generations, reveal unexpected characteristics of a culture, or simply fill an afternoon. Write about a time you had to follow a recipe, whether it was familiar or foreign to...
View ArticleEither Or
"Later we are promised snow. / So much for death today and long ago." Adam Tow adapted this poem by the late Maxine Kumin for Motionpoems.http://vimeo.com/82833100
View ArticleApple Files Second Appeal, John Steinbeck’s Google Doodle, and More
Staff An author faces the threat of arrest after asking to protest; writing fiction helps a start-up; Ralph Ellison’s portrait unveiled in Oklahoma; and other news. Page 1This is all the info relevant...
View ArticleL.A. Times Book Prize Finalists Announced
The finalists for the thirty-fourth annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, which are awarded in ten categories, were announced last week.read more
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Architecture for Travelers
March/April 2014 Jonathan Vatner State: Texas This spring poets Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu will build a house together after exploring the meaning of home through writing, photography, and a 680-mile...
View ArticleStudents Serve as Poet Ambassadors
March/April 2014 Amanda Calderon State: District of Columbia This April, during National Poetry Month, and through September, five high school students will work to promote poetry across the...
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Q&A: Brenda Greene Celebrates Black Literature
March/April 2014 Charif Shanahan The executive director of the Center for Black Literature celebrates a decade of service and looks forward to this month’s National Black Writers Conference in New York...
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Agents & Editors: Amy Einhorn
March/April 2014 Michael Szczerban State: New York The publisher of her eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House, Amy Einhorn discusses her early days as an assistant at FSG, the importance of...
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The Exiles: Report From Literary Syria
March/April 2014 Stephen Morison Jr. In a continuing series examining the state of literature abroad, poets Amjad Etry and Hala Mohammad and filmmaker Muhammad Bayazid discuss the challenges that...
View ArticleThe Illustrated Langston Hughes, Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn, and More
Staff Kwame Dawes says goodbye to Sochi; Winnie the Pooh turns ninety; MFA vs. NYC; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine...
View ArticleThe Making of a Letterpress Broadside
Literary House Press designs and prints their second annual commemorative letterpress broadside, Nance Van Winckel's poem "Because B," for the 2014 AWP Conference in...
View ArticleSpring
"Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade,” wrote Charles Dickens. As we prepare for a long-awaited spring, it’s interesting to reflect on the role that spring...
View ArticleAuthor Protests Anti-Gay Ruling, Live-Tweeting a Loved One’s Final Days, and...
Staff McSweeney’s releases a Portlandia-themed activity book; a new biography of Louis Armstrong; novelist Eleanor Catton on the seasons of writing; and other news. Page 1This is all the info relevant...
View ArticleHugh Howey
In the latest episode of Self-Publishing Roundtable, Hugh Howey, the author known for his popular series Wool, which he independently published through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, talks about...
View ArticleA Dream Within a Dream
"Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?" Fiona McLaughlin, Lauren Patrick, and Christopher McKenna created this short animation based on Edgard Allan Poe's poem "A Dream Within A...
View ArticleTwenty Facts About Dr. Seuss, Auden's Secret Life of Good Deeds, and More
Staff A six-year-old collects six hundred books for the homeless; Leon Trotsky’s opinion on the Ukraine; a new biography of filmmakers during war; and other news. Page 1This is all the info relevant...
View ArticleEAST Saturday program at Cooper Union, NYC
The grant from Poets & Writers significantly subsidized our Writing Project this semester, making it possible for Saturday Program, School of Art, at Cooper Union to offer a full roster of writing...
View ArticleTwo Dollar Radio
Eric Obenauf and Eliza-Wood Obenauf talk informally about the origin of Two Dollar Radio, the small press they founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 2005. Or was it 2004?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PdgIK1Mveg
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