Clik here to view.
Love Cake
Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha ISBN: 9781894770699 lovecake.jpg Contributor: Minal Hajratwala Location San Francisco, CA United States See map: Google Maps “I read a lot of poetry in 2011 as I was working...
View ArticleWrong Shakespeare, Tess Gallagher Sues, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Tess Gallagher, Raymond Carver's widow, has filed a lawsuit against Skyhorse Publishing over Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver; Radhika Jones explains why she loves reading...
View ArticleLinotype: The Film
This feature-length documentary, directed and produced by Doug Wilson, explores how the Linotype type casting machine (called the "Eighth Wonder of the World" by Thomas Edison) revolutionized printing...
View ArticleNaomi Long Madgett First Woman to Win Eminent Artist Award
The Detroit-based Kresge Foundation has awarded its 2012 Eminent Artist Award to Naomi Long Madgett, poet laureate of the city and author of ten poetry collections. read more
View ArticleTen Words, Five Stanzas
Pick up a dictionary and randomly choose ten words. Write a poem in five stanzas, with five lines in each stanza, using two of the ten words in each. Make the number of stressed syllables in each line...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Europe
Geert Mak ISBN:Â 9780375424953 ineurope.jpg Contributor:Â Paul Houseman Location Madison, WI United States See map: Google Maps "In 1999 the noted Dutch historian Geert Mak, author of The Bridge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Underworld
Don DeLillo ISBN: 9780684848150 underworld.jpg Contributor: Sarah Almond Location Durham, NC United States See map: Google Maps “Two thousand eleven was a year of seismic change—I held my breath and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tucson, Arizona
Ander Monson Ander Monson, editor of DIAGRAM and author, most recently, of Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir, leads a literary tour of Tucson, Arizona, home of the renowned UA Poetry Center, in time for...
View ArticleChinese Poet Faces Prison, Bukowski's Last Poem, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Chinese activist Zhu Yufu is facing a prison sentence for a poem he circulated on the Internet; Melville House ponders if James Franco's forthcoming novel will be a bestseller;...
View Articletest
test Website:Â http://www.google.com E-mail:Â email@email.com Phone:Â (518) 456-4569 Contact Name:Â Jim Location 216 Macon Lala, NY 11216United States See map: Google Maps Sponsored by Poets &...
View ArticleToday's Headlines
Read the headlines in today's newspaper. Choose one that you find compelling, and without reading the accompanying article, write a story based on the headline.Â
View ArticleClik here to view.
Steve Almond
almond.jpg "This is going to sound pretty awful, but I'm inspired by humiliation. My own, mostly, but also what I see in the world at large.read more
View ArticleGeoffrey Hill Versus Carol Ann Duffy, History of Blurbs, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff GalleyCat reports adult hardcover sales were down in November; Oxford professor of poetry Geoffrey Hill offers choice words for the United Kingdom's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy;...
View ArticleTimothy Donnelly Wins $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
The Claremont Graduate University has announced the winners of this year's Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards, two of the more lucrative honors in the genre. read more
View ArticleHow to Read Poetry
How many times have you been to a poetry reading that sounds like this? Here are some helpful and hilarious tips on how not to read your poetry, from the Fishbowl Improv group. Video URL:...
View ArticleRemembering Wislawa Szymborska and Dorothea Tanning, Paul Auster's War of...
Evan Smith Rakoff Nobel prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, as well as Surrealist artist and poet Dorothea Tanning, passed away yesterday in their respective countries; novelist Paul Auster has...
View ArticlePloughshares Launches Tri-Genre Emerging Writer's Contest
Starting yesterday, forty-year-old literary journal Ploughshares began accepting entries for a new writing contest open to unpublished poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. read more
View ArticleThe Next-Generation Independent Bookstore
Kepler's Books has been operating in Menlo Park, California, since 1955. After the recent retirement of Clark Kepler, a group of people committed to the bookstore's place in the community came together...
View ArticleGoodbye to Algonquin's Oak Room, E. B. White Answers the ASPCA, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Melville House wonders when publishers will speak out about Amazon; New York City's Algonquin Hotel announced that when it reopens this spring after a renovation, the famed Oak Room...
View ArticleGoodbye to Algonquin's Oak Room, E. B. White Answers the ASPCA, and More
Evan Smith Rakoff Melville House wonders when publishers will speak out about Amazon; New York City's Algonquin Hotel announced that when it reopens this spring after a renovation, the famed Oak Room...
View Article