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Alice Quinn Bids Farewell To PSA
This summer Alice Quinn will step down as the executive director of the Poetry Society of America (PSA), a position she has held for the past eighteen years.
My Life In Books
A MEDITATION ON THE WRITER’S LIBRARY
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Every January thousands of cowboys, ranchers, musicians, and craftspeople journey to the high-desert town of Elko, Nevada, for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
lit mag gives voice to homeless
its contributors are all part of boston’s homeless community.
The Hour Between Dog And Wolf
Harnessing the power of hypnagogia
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.
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.”
The Bookshop Band
For two weeks in January and February, English singer-songwriters Beth Porter and Ben Please, who together form the Bookshop Band, traveled across the United States performing their book-inspired music in libraries and bookstores.
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.
Zinzi Clemmons
whose debut novel, What We Lose, will be published in July by Viking.
Jess Arndt
whose debut story collection, Large Animals, was published in May by Catapult.
Lisa Ko
whose debut novel, The Leavers, winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize, was published in May by Algonquin Books.
Diksha Basu
whose debut novel, The Windfall, was published in June by Crown.
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.
Bullets Into Bells
Bullets Into Bells
Making Connections Through Books
Making Connections Through Books
Sokolowski's Inspiring Word Work
Sokolowski's Inspiring Word Work
Agent Advice
Annie Hwang of Folio Literary Management
Reviewers & Critics
Reviewers & Critics
turning the soil
how a year of farmwork yielded poems
freeman reimagines the journal
days before the second issue’s new york release, freeman talked about his vision for the journal.
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.
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.
How Deep This Grief
How Deep This Grief
The Radius Of Arab American Writers
The Radius Of Arab American Writers
Lena Dunham's Lenny Imprint
Lena Dunham's Lenny Imprint
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.
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.
Smart Retreats
Five Questions to Consider Before You Apply.
My Past And Future Assassin
In his sixth book, a sonnet sequence published by Penguin in June, Terrance Hayes cuts deep, to the marrow of the American moment, in a form with a razor’s edge: Love poems for the forces trying to kill you.