James Patterson Donates $1.25 Million to School Libraries, Basquiat the Poet,...
Staff Britain’s most eccentric library; writing in the age of Google; how poets bear witness; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers...
View ArticleCarolyn Joyner and Intrinsic Ardor
A Washington, D.C. poet, Carolyn Joyner has been featured in many publications and anthologies including Obsidian,Amistad, and Beltway Quarterly poetry magazines, Gathering Ground, Beyond the Frontier,...
View ArticleDeadline Approaches for Modern Love College Essay Contest
Submissions are currently open for the New York Times Modern Love College Essay Contest. The prize is awarded to a current U.S. college student for an essay that “illustrates the current state of love...
View ArticleMake it Happen
This past Sunday was International Women’s Day. The theme for 2015 was “Make it Happen,” a slogan encouraging effective action for advancing and recognizing women. This week, write a poem on what you’d...
View ArticleGood Morning
"Your neck is a whistling firework singing to the light of me. I am only amplifying sound." Spoken word poet Edwin Bodney reads his poem "Good Morning" in this video performance from Button...
View ArticleThe Haiku Guys, Original Audiobooks, and More
Staff Diane Wakoski’s Bay of Angels; Umberto Eco novel coming to U.S.; Boston’s Writers’ Room; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets &...
View ArticleUseful
"If you're a storyteller and you tell the story as honestly as you can, and then if it's funny along the way or moving along the way, great." Author Debra Oswald introduces her debut novel, Useful,...
View ArticleAnimal Story
We can imagine that animals have a very different concept of life than we do. To a lobster gazing through the glass of his tank at humans in a seafood restaurant, the world looks very different. An...
View ArticleWriters Talk Twitter and Self-Promotion, Toni Morrison on Failure, and More
Staff The value of authorial intent; the Tournament of Books takes off; Questlove reviews Kim Gordon's memoir; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day...
View ArticleChris Abani
Nigerian author Chris Abani gives a TED Talk on the concept of ubuntu, sharing stories of remarkable people, and concludes with Lucille Clifton's poem "Libation." Abani has taught at the VONA/Voices...
View ArticleOne Hundred Words
This week, write an essay using exactly one hundred words. Pick a concept you’ve been thinking about recently, like daylight savings time, or a personal story someone’s reminded you of recently, like...
View ArticleTerry Pratchett Has Died, Ireland’s Poetic Past, and More
Staff Post-Internet poetry; write an essay to win an Inn; race and the poetic avant-garde; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers...
View ArticlePEN/Faulkner Award Finalists Announced
The finalists for the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction have been announced. The annual award honors the best work of fiction published by an American author in the previous year.read more
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Monica Ong
ong_monica_110.jpgWriter Photo Credit: Matthew Fried “My reality consists of full-time work, parenting, family, friends, and a laptop full of clients. When to write? One shift I made was to identify...
View ArticleTribute to Terry Pratchett
"I never set out to write literature... but certainly I've had a lot of fun over the past twenty-five years." Sir Terry Pratchett, who passed away yesterday at the age of sixty-six, is honored in this...
View ArticleRankine, Robinson, and Chast Win NBCC Awards
The winners of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last night at the New School in New York City. Claudia Rankine, whose poetry collection Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf...
View ArticleJane Hirshfield on Art’s Longevity, Sappho’s Contested Biography, and More
Staff Terry Pratchett fans donate to Alzheimer’s charity; how writers retain inspiration after success; NBCC Awards announced; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the...
View ArticleJamie Brickhouse
"Reading other people's stories has always helped me with my own story.... I can pull the feelings and emotions away." Author Jamie Brickhouse discusses his memoir, Dangerous When Wet, forthcoming in...
View ArticleRoberto Bolaño Theater Adaptation, Writing Project Abandonment, and More
Staff Famous novelists who wrote fanfiction; why great novels don’t get noticed; Tournament of Books continues; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day...
View ArticleBlack Balloon Announces Book Prize Winner
Black Balloon Publishing, an imprint of the newly established Catapult, has announced Tegan Nia Swanson as the winner of the 2014 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Things We Found When...
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