Deborah Copaken Kogan Versus the Establishment, Performance Poet Kate...
Evan Smith Rakoff Deborah Copaken Kogan details the obstacles she's encountered in her storied career as a journalist and author; Christian Science Monitor features Robert Frost's ten favorite books;...
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Two Moons Reading 4
twomoons4.jpg Yoon Kim Credit Link: http://www.kimyoonsup.com/ Rough Magic (Robin Messing, Leo Ferguson, Charlie Rauh, Cornelius Eady, Concetta Abbate, and Emma Alabaster) at Lunar Walk at Two Moon...
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Two Moons Reading 3
twomoons3.jpg Yoon Kim Credit Link: http://www.kimyoonsup.com/ Poet Cornelius Eady at the Lunar Walk Reading Series at Two Moon Art House and Cafe in Brooklyn, New York, on February 10, 2013.
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Two Moons Reading 2
twomoons2.jpg Yoon Kim Credit Link: http://www.kimyoonsup.com/ Poet Jean Monahan reads at the Lunar Walk Reading Series at Two Moon Art House and Cafe in Brooklyn, New York, on February 10, 2013.
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Two Moons Reading 1
twomoons1.jpg Yoon Kim Credit Link: http://www.kimyoonsup.com/ A crowd listens to poets Cornelius Eady and Jean Monahan read at the Lunar Walk Reading Series at Two Moon Art House and Cafe in...
View ArticleElizabeth Alexander
On April 11 the author of five books of poetry and two essay collections, including Power and Possibility: Essays, Interviews, Reviews (University of Michigan Press, 2007), read her poem "Haircut" at...
View ArticleActor B. J. Novak Lands Seven-Figure Book Deal, Go the F**k to Sleep Movie,...
Evan Smith Rakoff The Los Angeles Times reports e-books helped increase overall United States book sales; David Haglund explains the fabricated claim that Dostoevsky met with Charles Dickens; Wendy...
View ArticleBrad Leithauser
The poet and novelist, whose most recent book, The Oldest Word for Dawn: New and Selected Poems, was published in February by Knopf, recently read his work at Politics & Prose in Washington D.C.,...
View ArticleFraudulent Vanity Publisher Sentenced to Prison, Randy Susan Meyers on...
Evan Smith Rakoff Vermont-based vanity publisher Peter Campbell-Copp has been sentenced to jail for fraud; Scientific American examines the physiological differences between reading print or...
View ArticleAdam Johnson, Sharon Olds Win Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prize board announced the winners and finalists of the 2013 Pulitzer Prizes today in New York City. Of the twenty-one categories, the prizes in letters are given annually for works...
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“Poets & Writers is singlehandedly making these programs possible. The sustained funding has allowed us to reach disenfranchised elderly as we wouldn’t have been able to before.” Attribution:...
View ArticleAdam Johnson
The author who yesterday won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel The Orphan Master's Son (Random House, 2012) appeared on the PBS NewsHour shortly after the publication of the book to discuss...
View ArticleA Poem for You
Write a poem of fourteen lines. Instead of using the first person (I), use only the second person (you).
View ArticleAuthors Discuss Boston Marathon Tragic Bombing, Walter Benjamin's Tips for...
Evan Smith Rakoff In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, authors share their thoughts, including Susan Orlean, Jill Lepore, and Dan Chiasson; Jeva Lange details her quest for Melville's...
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Jessica Grose
“Whenever I’m in a rut, there are a few women writers whose voices I return to: Lorrie Moore and Anne Lamott come to mind first, but I know there are others. It doesn’t matter if it’s fiction or...
View ArticleTamara Shopsin
New York Times illustrator, artist, chef, and author of Mumbai New York Scranton, published by Scribner in March, discusses her memoir about her adventures abroad with author and humorist John Hodgman...
View ArticleMichelle Dean on the Game of Women’s Memoir, Life Advice From J. Robert...
Evan Smith Rakoff Michelle Dean takes a detailed look at the game of women's memoir; Paisley Rekdal comes to the defense of the poetry workshop; J. Robert Lennon dispenses advice for the...
View ArticleWho Are They?
There are two men sitting in the booth of a diner eating dinner together and talking. A woman sits outside in a parked car, watching them through the window. Who are they? What is their relationship to...
View ArticleThe Smart Approach to Contest Submissions
May/June 2013 Staff Here are seven strategies for a more efficient (and hopefully more effective) process of submitting your work to contests.Page 1This is all the info relevant to page 1 of the...
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Bon Appétit: How Food Writing Fed My Fiction
May/June 2013 Aaron Hamburger State: New York Fiction writer Aaron Hamburger got more than he bargained for when he signed up for a class in food writing. Instead of simply learning about a new genre,...
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