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:
The sexual harassment complaint against former Penguin Canada president David Davidar has been settled out of court, according to the Star.
Borders opened an e-book store today, "nine months after Barnes & Noble debuted its Nook e-reader and three months after Apple introduced its popular iPad tablet computer, allowing both companies, and Amazon.com, which sells the Kindle e-reader, to get a big head start on Borders." (Reuters)
The Alzheimer's Poetry Project has been conducting research into the positive, scientifically measurable impact that hearing, reading, and even composing poetry can have on Alzheimer's patients. "To say that it is an amazing experience won't do it justice," says one volunteer. (Orlando Sentinel)
The Boston Globe is launching its own citywide reading program after lamenting Boston's lack of a One Book, One City program.
After a series of staff layoffs at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, students and alumni of the school are protesting the changes and have made a list of demands. Faculty, including Anne Waldman, have chastised the student groups for creating controversy based on misinformation. Check out the evolving situation here and at Daily Camera.
Publishers and other interested parties have formed the Affordable Mail Alliance to call for a rejection of a United States Postal Service proposal "to increase postal rates by ten times the rate permissable by law." (Folio)
In late 2008 Iowa City was named one of three UNESCO Cities of Literature—along with Melbourne, Australia, and Edinburgh, United Kingdom—and the University of Iowa's library is still celebrating, with an exhibition of "books, broadsheets, and ephemera of Iowa City writers" as well as a poetry marathon during which Dave Morice will attempt to write a hundred pages of poetry a day for a hundred days. (Press-Citizen)
The owners and patrons of an indie bookstore in Northville, Michigan, will get a bit of a thrill (pun intended) this week when Wes Craven, Courteney Cox, and Neve Campbell stroll through the doors to film scenes from Craven's upcoming horror film Scream 4. (Detroit Free Press)
