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Graywolf Press recently announced that it will release on February 6 a chapbook of Elizabeth Alexander’s poem “Praise Song for the Day,” which the poet read at the inauguration of president Barack Obama.
On a morning marked with the waving of tiny American flags and tears running down cold cheeks, friends and family and strangers hugged each other for warmth and in celebration—all of us united under a banner of words.
Andrew Proctor was recently named executive director of Literary Arts, the twenty-five-year-old nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon. He will succeed Elizabeth Burnett, who resigned from the post in September 2008.
The United States Postal Service released last week a postage stamp commemorating the bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe's birth.
Faced with budget cuts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation announced on Thursday that it will suspend its biennial poetry festival.
Smashwords, the self-publishing company founded by Mark Coker last year in Los Gatos, California, recently announced an agreement with Lexcycle, the company that makes the popular Stanza e-book reader for iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
As poets and publishers have taken advantage of technological advances to present poetry in a variety of new media, from podcasts to video poetry produced for the small screen, one writers organization is looking back to the telephone to spread the word.
An anonymous donor who paid $440,000 for a treasure trove of books and magazines from the Gotham Book Mart, an independent bookstore in New York City that was forced to close in 2007, has donated the collection to the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today that reading in the United States is making a resurgence.
Self-publishing company Author Solutions, Inc., which operates four imprints including AuthorHouse and iUniverse, has acquired its competitor Xlibris for an undisclosed sum.
