A Poem for Thanksgiving
"I'm thankful for ATM machines and for the smell of coffee beans." Recorded live at the Fitzgerald Theater in 2008, Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion, offers his list of thanks from...
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Staff PEN American Center’s Human Rights Day event; Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems reissued; poet Heather McHugh’s nonprofit; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article....
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Mike Meginnis
mike_meginnis_110.jpgWriter Photo Credit: Greg Bal “Choose several literary rivals. These should be people you know. They should be people you like, respect, and admire. They should be people who...
View ArticleBryant Park Reading Room
Name of Reading Series: Word for Word Poetry Series E-mail: events@urbanmgt.com Phone Number: (212) 768-4242The Bryant Park Corporation has repeated history by recreating the Bryant Park Reading...
View ArticleCake Shop
Name of Reading Series: Mixer Reading and Music Series E-mail: cakeshopUSA@gmail.com Phone Number: (212) 253-0036A monthly reading and music series featuring talented writers and bands. Brought to...
View ArticleFeasting
Thanksgiving is a holiday of abundance, good will, good company, and most importantly, good food. We all have our favorites—that platter or dish we set strategically in front of us and hope nobody asks...
View ArticleCuz He's Black
"It's not about whether or not the shooter is racist. It's about how poor black boys are treated as problems well before we are treated as people." Award-winning slam poet Javon Johnson performs a...
View ArticleRoxane Gay’s Response to Ferguson, Claudia Rankine’s Urgent Poetry, and More
Staff Ferguson library stays open amid unrest; Gabriel García Márquez’s archives go to Texas; Taiwan’s 24-hour bookstores; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article....
View ArticleSenses
When writing, we usually employ as many senses as we (or our characters) typically experience. Take a scene you’ve already written and tally how many times touch, sight, sound, taste, and smell are...
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Charles D'Ambrosio: Washington, D.C. 2014
URL: http://www.pw.org/files/videos/2014-dc-featured-re...dsc_0340.jpgCharles D'Ambrosio reads from his new collection of essays, Loitering: New and Collected Essays, published by Tin House Books in...
View ArticleA Poem for Thanksgiving
"I'm thankful for ATM machines and for the smell of coffee beans." Recorded live at the Fitzgerald Theater in 2008, Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion, offers his list of thanks from...
View ArticleFerguson Public Library Sees Donations Spike, James Patterson Campaigns...
Staff PEN American Center’s Human Rights Day event; Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems reissued; poet Heather McHugh’s nonprofit; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article....
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Mike Meginnis
mike_meginnis_110.jpgWriter Photo Credit: Greg Bal “Choose several literary rivals. These should be people you know. They should be people you like, respect, and admire. They should be people who...
View ArticleBryant Park Reading Room
Name of Reading Series: Word for Word Poetry Series E-mail: events@urbanmgt.com Phone Number: (212) 768-4242The Bryant Park Corporation has repeated history by recreating the Bryant Park Reading...
View ArticleCake Shop
Name of Reading Series: Mixer Reading and Music Series E-mail: cakeshopUSA@gmail.com Phone Number: (212) 253-0036A monthly reading and music series featuring talented writers and bands. Brought to...
View ArticleFeasting
Thanksgiving is a holiday of abundance, good will, good company, and most importantly, good food. We all have our favorites—that platter or dish we set strategically in front of us and hope nobody asks...
View ArticleHow to Be Both
Ali Smith reads from her dual-narrative novel involving a British teenager mourning her mother's death and a fifteenth-century Italian painter. The novel, released tomorrow by Pantheon, was a finalist...
View ArticlePulitzer Prize–Winning Poet Mark Strand Has Died, China Bans Wordplay, and More
Staff Penguin’s holiday book-recommendation hotline; the Obamas visit Politics & Prose bookstore; the problems with “finding your voice”; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page...
View ArticleReal Talk with Amber Atiya
Amber Atiya is the author of the chapbook The Fierce Bums of Doo-wop (Argos Books, 2014). Her poems have been published most recently in Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Boston...
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Indie Editor Roundtable: Washington, D.C. 2014
URL: http://www.pw.org/files/videos/2014-dc-indie-edito...dsc_0144.jpgMelissa Faliveno, associate editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, talks with the editors of five independent presses about the...
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