Anthony Doerr, Gregory Pardlo Win Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prize board announced the winners of the 2015 Pulitzer Prizes today in New York City. Of the twenty-one categories, the awards in letters are given annually for works published in the...
View ArticleJessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown
Iowa City's Prairie Lights bookstore hosts a reading with poets Jessica Jacobs, author of Pelvis With Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), and Nickole Brown, author of Fanny Says (BOA Editions, 2015)....
View ArticleBooks in Space, Benjamin Percy's Monster Fiction, and More
Staff PEN Literary Awards shortlists announced; Vintage Books prepares for Short Story Month; report finds troubling statistics for writers of color in the U.K.; and other news.Page 1This is all the...
View ArticlePEN Announces Finalists for Literary Awards
PEN American Center announced this morning the shortlist for its annual literary awards. PEN will award over $150,000 in prize money to emerging and established writers and translators. The winners...
View ArticleElegy for a Dead World
Elegy for a Dead World is a creative-writing video game that explores abandoned worlds inspired by English Romantic poets Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats. Read more about the game's creation...
View ArticleThis Must Be the Place
Sean H. Doyle's debut memoir, This Must Be the Place, is forthcoming in May from Civil Coping Mechanisms. The Virginia-based press is featured in Small Press Points in the May/June issue of Poets &...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress Poetry Archive Goes Digital, Literary Fame, and More
Staff Gary Snyder interview; Nick Cave poetry book; Catapult to host fiction workshops; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets & Writers...
View ArticleAnthony Doerr, Gregory Pardlo Win Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prize board announced the winners of the 2015 Pulitzer Prizes today in New York City. Of the twenty-one categories, the awards in letters are given annually for works published in the...
View ArticleTeresa Mei Chuc
The author of Red Thread (Fithian Press, 2012) and Keeper of the Winds (FootHills Publishing, 2014), reads from her work at Rattle's monthly reading series. Rattle is featured in Literary MagNet in the...
View ArticleCharlotte Brontë–Inspired Stories, Elizabeth Alexander on Grief, and More
Staff Toni Morrison at NPR; the American dream in contemporary novels; Murakami’s advertising stories; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets...
View ArticleConstruction
This week, construct a poem as if the words that comprise it are three-dimensional. Imagine their shape, their heft -- how you must manipulate them in space to build your poem. Then print words on...
View ArticleNate Marshall
In a video shared by Button Poetry, Nate Marshall reads his poem "Prelude (R.I.P.)" at the Fox Egg Gallery in Minneapolis. Marshall is featured in "Winners on Winning (and Losing)" in the May/June...
View ArticleAnthony Doerr Interview, Poetry Etymology, and More
Staff Author responds to his memoir-turned-film; Frederic Morton has died; Highline poetry walk; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets &...
View ArticleWritten for You
Sometimes we pick up a book or read an article at the exact moment it's so needed.read more
View ArticleWhat Is Found Here: POG, Tucson
Samuel Ace is the author of three collections of poetry: Normal Sex (Firebrand Books, 1994), Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. (Hard Press, 1996), and most recently, Stealth(Chax Press, 2011) co-authored...
View ArticleDeadline Approaches for National Translation Awards
Nominations are currently open for the 2015 American Literary Translators Association’s National Translation Awards (NTA) in poetry and prose, and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. Individual...
View ArticleConstruction
This week, construct a poem as if the words that comprise it are three-dimensional. Imagine their shape, their heft -- how you must manipulate them in space to build your poem. Then print words on...
View ArticleNate Marshall
In a video shared by Button Poetry, Nate Marshall reads his poem "Prelude (R.I.P.)" at the Fox Egg Gallery in Minneapolis. Marshall is featured in "Winners on Winning (and Losing)" in the May/June...
View ArticleAnthony Doerr Interview, Poetry Etymology, and More
Staff Author responds to his memoir-turned-film; Frederic Morton has died; Highline poetry walk; and other news.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the article. Every day Poets &...
View ArticleWritten for You
Sometimes we pick up a book or read an article at the exact moment it's so needed.read more
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