Ithaca Named Second U.S. City of Asylum
In October, Ithaca, New York, was officially designated a city of asylum for exiled writers, only the second of its kind in the U.S.
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So Much Depends Upon a New Bookstore: Postcard From Paris
On the evening of October 29, more than seventy-five people crammed into The Red Wheelbarrow, a newly opened Anglophone bookshop, to inaugurate a reading series and celebrate two literary magazines: Upstairs at Duroc, published at the Anglo cultural center WICE, and Pharos, edited collectively by poet Alice Notley’s workshop at the British Institute in Paris. The enthusiastic crowd spilled onto the cobblestone street, smoking cigarettes and craning their necks for a view of the proceedings.
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An Interview With Poet Joan Murray
In December, Boston-based Beacon Press will publish Poems to Live By in Uncertain Times,
an anthology of sixty poems "to nourish our national spirit" after the
terrorist attacks of September 11. Included in the anthology, which was
edited by Joan Murray, are poems by W.H. Auden, Czeslaw Milosz, Bertolt
Brecht, Yehuda Amichai, Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef Komunyakaa, D.H.
Lawrence, and Sharon Olds.
Carolyn Kizer Cracks Her Wit: Postcard From Paris
“We can’t say it’s the end of irony,” said poet Carolyn Kizer, in light of the terrorist attacks on September 11. “It’s the beginning. But irony is seldom appreciated by American culture.”
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Michael Hammond to be Nominated Next NEA Chairman
President George W. Bush recently announced his intention to nominate Michael P. Hammond as the next chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Academy of American Poets Director Asked to Resign
After 12 years as executive director of the Academy of American Poets, William Wadsworth was asked by Henry Reath, president of the organization's board of directors, to resign from his post.
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Helen Keller Archive Lost in World Trade Center Attack
The literary archive of Helen Keller, the
American writer and champion of the blind, was lost in the September 11
attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.
Book-of-the-Month Club Reinstates Panel of Judges
The Book-of-the-Month Club, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, recently announced the return of its editorial board of judges, a four-member panel of best-selling authors that recommends at least five books to members of the club each year.
First Lady Laura Bush to Host National Book Festival
The first annual National Book Festival, sponsored by First Lady Laura Bush and Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, will be held at the Library of Congress on September 8.
An Interview With Poet Robert Creeley
With over sixty books published during a career that spans more than half a century, Robert Creeley is one of the most prolific and influential figures in American poetry. This month New Directions is publishing Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994, which collects three of Creeley’s previous books.
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