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:
Literary magazine the Believer has launched a new website that makes its fifteen-year archive of poetry, essays, interviews, and comics available to the public for the first time.
The Los Angeles Times investigates the identity of writer Anna March, who is known by at least four different names and has multiple financial judgments against her totaling more than $380,000.
PBS NewsHour talks with poets Laura Da’ and Tommy Pico about Graywolf’s new anthology of indigenous poetry, New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich.
José Olivarez talks about how he came to poetry, learning to accept failure, and thinking about poems as a way for people to “imagine something besides the way things are now.” (Creative Independent)
Graphic novelist Nick Drnaso talks about writing and almost canceling the publication of his most recent book, Sabrina, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize earlier this week. (Vulture)
Anne Olivier Bell, who edited Virginia Woolf’s diaries and married the modernist writer’s nephew, died last week at age 102. (New York Times)
For the upcoming bicentennial of Emily Brontë’s birth, Lily Cole has made a film inspired by Wuthering Heights called Balls that is a “moving, elliptical reimagining of Heathcliff’s first few months.” (Guardian)
“If it has been the tendency of African American artists to stray heedlessly across academic borders and genre demarcations (rap is popular poetry; jazz produces improvised symphonies; gospel is the sexual sacred), then Taylor is firmly grounded in the African-American aesthetic tradition.” Zadie Smith considers the paintings of artist Henry Taylor. (New Yorker)
