Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories:
Poets Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay, fiction writer Jeanette Winterson, and musician Kate Bush have each written tributes to the Brontë sisters, which will be inscribed on four stones placed near the Brontë’s former home in England’s Yorkshire moors. The monument will be unveiled at the Bradford Literature Festival in July. (BBC News)
Five women poets, including Tarfia Faizullah, Aja Monet, Layli Long Soldier, Airea D. Matthews, and Franny Choi, discuss their work and writing poetry of protest and resistance. (Ms. Magazine)
Former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove has been named the new poetry editor of New York Times Magazine. She will succeed Terrance Hayes in the one-year position in June. (University of Virginia)
This month Amazon is launching Prime Book Box for Kids, a monthly subscription service that sends customers hardcover children’s books. (TechCrunch)
“I wasted a lot of time writing about love, because women waste lots of time writing about love.” Poet and fiction writer Sandra Cisneros discusses femininity and how moving to Mexico has influenced her life and writing. (Ploughshares)
American author David Grann has won the 2018 Edgar Award for nonfiction for Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday). The awards honor the best mystery fiction, nonfiction, television, and film writing published in the previous year. (Penguin Random House)
Happy May! The Millions previews fifteen books published this month.
In the latest installment of Musicians on Writing, a monthly column at the Los Angeles Review of Books, indie rock singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett talks about her love of Mary Oliver and Maya Angelou, and writing poetry as a kid.
