Art
Poets & Writers Magazine
Truth and Imagınatıon
In a New Novel, Moonglow, His First Since the Best-selling Telegraph Avenue, Michael Chabon Spins a Magical Family Narrative That Is as Grand and Mysterious as the Literary Form in Which He Presents It.
10+ min |
November - December 2016
Poets & Writers Magazine
The African Poetry Book Fund
It is not surprising that several world-class writers collaborated to bring the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) to life. Nor is it surprising, given the vast number of prolific African American and African-born writers in America, that such a fund—whose mission is to celebrate and promote the poetic arts of Africa—could have its roots here.
3 min |
November - December 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Art Of Reading James Baldwin
I WENT looking for the devil, but James Baldwin found me first. I had good reason to be looking: not only because I was a wobbling Catholic (beware of any other kind) but also because I was almost born prematurely in a movie theater in 1974 as my parents sat trembling to The Exorcist. I’d always known this; it was one of the first things I could remember my mother telling me: “Never watch that movie. It nearly made you a preemie.”
10+ min |
November - December 2017
poets & writers magazine
lit mag gives voice to homeless
its contributors are all part of boston’s homeless community.
5 min |
november - december 2016
Poets & Writers Magazine
Zinzi Clemmons
whose debut novel, What We Lose, will be published in July by Viking.
9 min |
July - August 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
Jess Arndt
whose debut story collection, Large Animals, was published in May by Catapult.
5 min |
July - August 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
Lisa Ko
whose debut novel, The Leavers, winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize, was published in May by Algonquin Books.
3 min |
July - August 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
Diksha Basu
whose debut novel, The Windfall, was published in June by Crown.
3 min |
July - August 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
Worth The Wait
Readers Have Anticipated a New Novel From the Author of the God of Small Things for Two Full Decades. Now, With the Release of Arundhati Roy’s the Ministry of Utmost Happiness , The Wait Is Over.
10+ min |
July - August 2017
poets & writers magazine
turning the soil
how a year of farmwork yielded poems
10+ min |
november - december 2016
poets & writers magazine
freeman reimagines the journal
days before the second issue’s new york release, freeman talked about his vision for the journal.
3 min |
november - december 2016
poets & writers magazine
the shakespeare sonnet project
the original deadline was shakespeare’s 450th birthday (april 23, 2014), but the project’s aim—to merge the literary and visual arts, and bring the poetry of william shakespeare to the poetry of new york city—quickly proved more ambitious than expected.
3 min |
november - december 2016
Poets & Writers Magazine
Bullets Into Bells
Bullets Into Bells
5 min |
January - February 2018
Poets & Writers Magazine
Making Connections Through Books
Making Connections Through Books
4 min |
January - February 2018
Poets & Writers Magazine
Sokolowski's Inspiring Word Work
Sokolowski's Inspiring Word Work
3 min |
January - February 2018
Poets & Writers Magazine
Agent Advice
Annie Hwang of Folio Literary Management
2 min |
January - February 2018
Poets & Writers Magazine
Reviewers & Critics
Reviewers & Critics
8 min |
January - February 2018
Poets & Writers Magazine
Dear Readers, You Are Not Alone
When you walk into a bar full of people silently on their phones, no one thinks anything of it,” says Guinevere de la Mare, founder of San Francisco–based Silent Book Club. “But when you walk into a bar full of people silently reading books? Now that’s an arresting image.” It’s also an image that’s becoming more common, as a new literary trend gains traction around the country: silent reading parties.
3 min |
January - February 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
Authors Thinking Outside The Book
Charles Theonia’s latest book looks nothing like a book. Instead it is a collection of twenty-one tiny glass bottles, each one with a poem inside.
3 min |
January - February 2019
Poets & Writers Magazine
Wilson Leads The Feminist Press
In July writer, activist, and media commentator Jamia Wilson was named the new executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press (FP), a forty-seven-year-old nonprofit known for highlighting feminist perspectives and prose. Located at the City University of New York, the press has published books by writers such as Shahrnush Parsipur and Ama Ata Aidoo and public figures such as Anita Hill and Justin Vivian Bond.
3 min |
November - December 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Poet At Work
With a New Boo Ok of Nonfiction, Bunk, to Add to His Ten Acclaimed Poetry Collections, a New Job as Director of a Leading Research Center on Black Culture, and a New Role as Poetry Editor of the New Yorker, Kevin Young Is Fully Engaged in a Personal Program of Moving Multitudes.
10+ min |
November - December 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Emotional Realist Talks to Ghosts
Already established as a master of the short story,George Saunders turns to the long form in his debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo,an imaginative tour de force in which nearly all the characters are dead.
10+ min |
March - April 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
Smart Retreats
Five Questions to Consider Before You Apply.
10 min |
March - April 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Radius Of Arab American Writers
The Radius Of Arab American Writers
4 min |
September - October 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
Lena Dunham's Lenny Imprint
Lena Dunham's Lenny Imprint
3 min |
September - October 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
Epic
Salman Rushdie’s New Novel, The Golden House, Marks A Triumphant Return To Realism For The Titan Of Letters Whose Insights On Everything From Novel-Writing And Magical Realism To Identity And Social Media Are As Fascinating As The Worlds He Creates In His Books.
10+ min |
September - October 2017
Poets & Writers Magazine
The Hour Between Dog And Wolf
Harnessing the power of hypnagogia
10+ min |
January - February 2019
Poets & Writers Magazine
Portraits Of Inspiration
Seven writers with books coming out in the first months of the new year share their thoughts about creativity, the transformative power of writing, and the infinite potential of the literary imagination.
10 min |
January - February 2019
Poets & Writers Magazine
Still Dancing
Fifteen Years In The Making, Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic, Published This Month By Graywolf Press, Is A Dramatic Masterwork, A Parable-in-poems That Confronts The Darkness Of War And Terror With The Blazing Light Of “a Poet In Love With The World.”
10+ min |
March - April 2019
Poets & Writers Magazine
I, Too Arts Collective
For nearly ten years the brownstone at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem was silent.
4 min |