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.