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:
A series of radio conversations between Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges and Italian poet Osvaldo Ferrari that took place in 1984 have been translated into English for the first time, and will be published in October by Seagull Books. Read an excerpt of the conversations at the New York Review of Books.
An exhibition devoted to Ernest Hemingway opens today at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, marking the first major museum exhibition dedicated to the author. “Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars,” features early drafts of his short stories, typescripts of his major novels, photographs, and personal items, and runs through January 31, 2016. (New York Times)
The Cave Canem Foundation—“North America’s premier home for black poetry”—has announced the retirement of its board of directors president Toi Derricotte, who has held the position since 1997. Derricotte cofounded Cave Canem with Cornelius Eady in 1996. The foundation has established the Toi Derricotte Tribute Fund in her honor; donations will go towards retreat tuition and a room-and-board scholarship for Cave Canem fellows.
In an interview for BOMB, poet Alice Notley talks about her writing process, the fluidity of identity, and making poetry synonymous with life. Notley—who has published thirty-five poetry collections over her forty-year career—was awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lily Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement in May.
Meanwhile, another accomplished and prolific poet, Eileen Myles, is profiled at New York Magazine. HarperCollins will release two of Myles’s books on September 29: I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975–2014, and Chelsea Girls, a reissue of her out-of-print 1994 novel.
“Call it building community or call it healing, in Herrera’s books it is absolutely an essential responsibility because it generates, above all else, hope.” At the Los Angeles Review of Books, poet Rigoberto González considers the “expansive vision” and global voice of poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.
Happy Birthday, William Faulkner (September 25, 1897–July 6, 1962). Brain Pickings features an excerpt of a 1953 letter by the celebrated author, in which he praises the mystique of creative life: “And now I realize for the first time what an amazing gift I had: uneducated in every formal sense, without even very literate, let alone literary, companions, yet to have made the things I made. I don’t know where it came from.”
