The Economic Lives of Writers, the Best Sentences of 2017, and More
American Poetry Review editor David Bonanno has died; a new anthology of African American folktales; unpublished Zora Neale Hurston book to be released in May; and other news.
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Writers on Sexual Harassment, Tax Win for Graduate Students, and More
The revelations in a book’s acknowledgments section; a Harry Potter story written by predictive text; books to look out for in 2018; and other news.
Dan Beachy-Quick and Jen Bervin
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In this video, Dan Beachy-Quick reads alongside Jen Bervin at Harvard University’s Woodberry Poetry Room. Beachy-Quick is the author of the essay collection Of Silence and Song (Milkweed Editions, 2017), which is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Adrian Matejka Named Indiana Poet Laureate, Lisa Ko on Immigration, and More
Loft Literary Center launches book festival; the politics of Syrian poet Adonis; Amazon announces most-read books of the year; and other news.
The Written Image: The Poets Series
Melanie Janisse-Barlow turns the tables on a long tradition of poets finding their muse in visual art through her Poets Series project, a collection of painted portraits of poets.
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The Whole Self: Our Thirteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets
A look at some of the most exciting first books of poetry published in 2017, including WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier and Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar.
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On Art and Selfishness, the Cat Person Story, and More
University of Texas makes half of Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive publicly available; Publishers Weekly releases its Spring 2018 book preview; Merriam-Webster announces the word of the year; and other news.
The Fruitcake That Time Forgot
How long can a fruitcake last? Conservators from the Antarctic Heritage Trust in New Zealand revealed earlier this year that a well-preserved fruitcake, which likely belonged to British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, had been discovered in one of the continent’s oldest buildings. Scott’s expedition dates to 1911, making the fruitcake, which “smelled edible,” 106 years old. Write a poem from the vantage point of this fruitcake, perhaps touching upon topics such as the stereotypical longevity of the traditional dessert, frigid Antarctic isolation, or the prospect of resurfacing in civilization after missing out on over a century’s worth of events.
Third-Graders Save a Barnes and Noble, Literary Cocktails, and More
Debut novelist Naima Coster on working with an editor of color; Hanif Abdurraqib and Tommy Pico on 2017; a profile of Adam Gopnik; and other news.
Submissions Open for New $20,000 Poetry Prize
Submissions are open for the Four Quartets Prize, sponsored by the T. S. Eliot Foundation and Poetry Society of America. Launched in November, the prize is given for a sequence of poems published in the United States in the past two years. The winner will receive $20,000.
Established in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the U.S. publication of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, the prize will be judged by Linda Gregerson, Ishion Hutchinson, and Jana Prikryl. The prize is “first and foremost a celebration of the multi-part poem,” such as Eliot’s Four Quartets, Gwendolyn Brooks’s A Street in Bronzeville, and John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs.
Submissions are open until December 22. Authors, publishers, and agents may submit four copies of at least fourteen pages of a poetic sequence published in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book in 2016 or 2017. Sequences published across multiple publications are eligible. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.
The shortlist for the prize will be announced in New York City on April 12 at an event featuring actor Jeremy Irons at the 92nd Street Y. Three shortlisted finalists will each receive $1,000. The winner will be announced the following day.
The Poetry Society of America, based in New York City, is dedicated to promoting the place of poetry in American culture. The T. S. Eliot Foundation, based in London, is dedicated to celebrating poetry, literacy, and “all things Eliot.” The foundation also administers the annual £25,000 T. S. Eliot Prize, given for the best new poetry collection published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
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