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 late Maya Angelou would have been ninety today. To celebrate the author’s birthday, TIME highlights five facts about Angelou [2]—she was the first black female conductor of a San Francisco cable car, for example—and Google features an animated video of Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Alicia Keys, America Ferrera, and others reading Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” as a Google Doodle [3].

Roxane Gay is curating a pop-up magazine at Medium to “create a space for writers I respect and admire to contribute to the ongoing conversation about unruly bodies [4] and what it means to be human,” starting with essays by Randa Jarrar, S. Bear Bergman, Matthew Salesses, and Kiese Laymon.

Joan Silber has won the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award [5] for her novel Improvement, which also won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle award in fiction. Silber will receive $15,000. (Washington Post)

The New York Times Magazine reports on the Chinese government’s crackdown on booksellers in Hong Kong [6], especially those selling banned books.

 “…King’s legacy is not static. Five decades later, it continues to deepen and unfold.” On the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination [7], the New Yorker rounds up its coverage of the legendary civil rights leader over the decades.

Paul Bogaards, the executive director of publicity at Knopf/Doubleday, posted an official job listing for a publicist on the Penguin Random House website and then wrote a rather unconventional listing [8] of the job for his blog. “You will attend meetings where nothing happens. That is another succinct description of book publishing in the twenty-first century.”

In response to writer Whit Reynolds’s Twitter challenge [9] over the weekend for women to “describe yourself like a male author would,” Katy Waldman considers the “ridiculousness that ensues when bookish men perform interest in women’s inner lives [10] out of a misbegotten sense of nobility.” (New Yorker)

Poet J. Jennifer Espinoza talks with the Creative Independent [11] about creative process, protecting one’s mental and physical health while writing and being on social media, and how to deal with creative blocks.