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 poem doesn’t need to follow any particular grammar rules; it is the record of one’s own experience of the singular mind and/or body, a singular voice. For many of us, it is also a way of ‘being in the world,’ a world that in many ways was not made for us and actively resists our participation. Through poetry, we are able to remake and reinvent that world.” Poet Jennifer Bartlett has put together a collection of poems by writers with disabilities. (New York Times)
“You tore into our land / a crooked line.” On the seventy-first anniversary of the Partition of India, Adeeba Talukder and six other poets respond to the work of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali, Amrita Pritam, and the “fractured history of the subcontinent.” (Margins)
In response to the release of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians as a movie, Crystal Hana Kim recommends six other books by Asian authors that could be adapted to screen.
In other television news, Vogue visits the set of HBO’s adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series and talks with its director, Saverio Costanzo, and the unknown actors starring as the two protagonists, Lila and Lenù.
PBS’s television series The Great American Read has already gathered more than two million votes as part of its search for America’s favorite novel. Voting will remain open to the public through the fall; the winning book will be revealed in October. (Publishers Weekly)
The Washington Post looks at the books written by former staffers of the Trump administration, including Omarosa Manigault Newman’s Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House, which came out yesterday.
Journalist and biographer Evelyn C. White talks with the Rumpus about her upbringing, writing a biography of Alice Walker, and working with other Black feminists.
Musician and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy will publish a memoir with Dutton in November. (Los Angeles Times)
