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Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
The illustrator of the graphic novel My Brilliant Friend, Mara Cerri, discusses her artistic practice, the challenges of rendering an esteemed novel in images, and her experience working with one of world’s most elusive authors.
The new editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets discusses the power of the written word, the importance of university presses, and his plans to leave no manuscript unturned.
Led by a board of distinguished authors in collaboration with three nonprofit organizations, a new yearlong fellowship supporting system-impacted writers promises to provide resources and funding to share their stories.
“Read more than you write.” —Robyn Schiff, author of Information Desk: An Epic
From her home in Santa Fe, the celebrated author of the new essay collection Thin Skin discusses queer identity, what it takes to write against capitalism and climate crisis, and the arts of rest and beekeeping.
The poet discusses erasure as process and metaphor, how she spent six years turning a report on police racism into poetry, and the inspiration of wild animals.
The recipients of the 2023 International Booker Prize discuss the Bulgarian author’s obsession with memory, growing up in the former socialist state, and the intricacies of translating the award-winning novel, Time Shelter.
“I love when a poem is getting there, when I can’t stop coming back to it.” —Alise Alousi, author of What to Count
The author of The Museum of Human History discusses how the human mind and archetypal narratives informed her novel.
“One of the pleasures of writing short stories for me is the surprise of an ending.” —Jamel Brinkley, author of Witness
The author of The Museum of Human History considers how to manage a novel’s many threads.
“You have time.” —JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
The author of The Museum of Human History offers a method for moving from short stories to longer-form narratives.
“I’m always trying to leave room in my writing for surprise.” —Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Small Worlds
“Finish the draft. Nothing else matters.” —Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe
The author of I Do Everything I’m Told contemplates writing about and beyond personal boundaries.
The author of I Do Everything I’m Told considers the role of the breath in poetic composition.
“I didn’t set out to write exactly this book.” —Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, author of Negative Money
The author of I Do Everything I’m Told explores the nuances of writing at the intersection of sex, love, queerness, and race.
“I had to learn through writing the book how to discipline my creativity so that I could write whenever and wherever I needed to.” —Stacy Jane Grover, author of Tar Hollow Trans
The author of Spoken Word: A Cultural History and The Study of Human Life examines the power of recovering lost literary voices.
Interviews with debut authors Tyriek White, Ada Zhang, Mihret Sibhat, Shastri Akella, and Rebekah Bergman, along with excerpts from their books.
The Worldbuilding Initiative, a new public-facing program at Arizona State University, uses ideas and skills from creative writing to encourage participants to take an active role in imagining a more equitable and sustainable future.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including As If She Had a Say by Jennifer Fliss and So to Speak by Terrance Hayes.
After more than two decades, the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize will no longer divide its award into Canadian and international categories, drawing mixed responses from the Canadian literary world.
