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:

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded poets Lisa Robertson, Anne Boyer, and Fred Moten grants of $40,000 [2]. Robertson won the inaugural C. D. Wright Award for Poetry [3], which was announced last month.

The New York Times has released a calendar of “must-know literary events in 2018 [4],” including book releases, festivals, and author birthdays.

Mystery writer Sue Grafton died last week from cancer at age seventy-seven [5]. Grafton was known for her crime novels with titles inspired by the alphabet, such as A Is for Alibi and Y Is for Yesterday. (CNN)

From How to Win Friends and Influence People to A Room of One’s Own, Robert McCrum concludes his two-year long effort to select the hundred best nonfiction books of all time [6]. (Guardian)

David Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, has launched a book club in honor of his father [7], who was a prolific reader. The first book the club will read is Peter Ackroyd’s 1985 novel, Hawskmoor. (Verge)

Is one of your 2018 resolutions to read more books [8]? The Los Angeles Times offers strategies to keep you on track.

Paper Darts rounds up the best book covers of 2017 [9], from Na Kim’s “grown-up yet hip” covers and Ben Denzer’s use of millennial purple to Oliver Munday’s “daring sense of color.”

At the Atlantic, Hanif Abdurraqib considers the work of poet Yrsa Daley-Ward [10], who shares her poetry via social media and successfully “uses a platform without bowing to it.”