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 Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., will host a traveling exhibit of Shakespeare’s First Folios in 2016. The Washington Post provides the complete list of sites on the “Folger’s First Folios” tour, which is set to stop in every state.
Sixteenth-century printer Aldus Manutius, who is considered the father of the paperback book, is the subject of a current exhibit at the Grolier Club in New York City. The exhibit commemorates the five-hundredth anniversary of Manutius’s death, and “the birth of reading as we know it,” says Philip Greenberg at the New York Times.
British poet and playwright Tony Harrison was awarded the 2015 David Cohen Prize for Literature this week. Chair of judges Mark Lawson noted that Harrison “is a great poet of the private—in his early work about his upbringing and education in working-class Leeds—but also of the public: addressing social incohesion (in v) and the recent British wars abroad (in Cold Coming).” (Guardian)
An anonymous person has been abandoning books along Colorado’s Highway 287. The act is both dangerous for the highway workers and sad for book lovers. (Melville House)
However, artist Alexis Arnold could use those discarded books to create her crystalized sculptures. (Colossal)
For the past eight years, a Pittsburgh man named Billie Nardozzi has paid $50 almost every week to publish his poems in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Coffee and writing are meant to be together. Browse Travel & Leisure’s list of college coffee shops across America that host poetry readings and other writing events.
