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:

Last night poet, activist, and community leader Andrea Jenkins won a Minneapolis City Council seat, making her the first openly trans woman of color elected to any U.S. public office [2]. (Washington Post)

The Poetry Foundation and the Seattle-based Hugo House have collaborated on a new initiative, Poetry Across the Nations, to support the work of Native poets through readings and workshops [3].

Meanwhile, at the New Yorker Danielle Geller annotates the first page of the first Navajo-English dictionary [4].

Open Culture features the many illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy from the fifteenth and sixteenth century [5], which are viewable as part of Columbia University’s Digital Dante project [6].

John Kulka has been named the new editorial director of the Library of America [7]; he will succeed Cheryl Hurley, who is retiring at the end of the year. (Shelf Awareness)

The New York Times visits ninety-three-year-old sculptor and writer Otis Kidwell Burger [8], who has been holding poetry salons for decades in her Greenwich Village townhouse, where she used to rent out rooms to “artists, sailors, a transvestite prostitute, and a magician” for eight dollars a night.

On Saturday at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, actor Tom Hanks, who is promoting his book of stories, Uncommon Type, helped a couple get engaged [9]. (Los Angeles Times)

Colossal features artist Kate Kato and her intricate sculptures of wildlife made out of found and recycled books and paper [10].