Whitman, Alabama
A video series explores ideas of America and identity by featuring people from across the state of Alabama reading stanzas from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”
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Publishing, Empowering Teen Writers
[Y]volve Publishing, a new press based in Chicago, has launched a chapbook series featuring poetry both written and edited by local teens.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Roxane Gay’s Hunger and Julia Fierro’s The Gypsy Moth Summer.
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Small Press Points: Aunt Lute Books
Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the San Francisco–based feminist press Aunt Lute Books.
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Poetry of Exile, a Literary Guide to the Cannes Film Festival, and More
Picador editor on supporting overlooked voices; new e-book project explores digital ownership; Margaret Atwood’s additions to The Handmaid’s Tale audiobook; and other news.
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The Trembling Answers by Craig Morgan Teicher
Craig Morgan Teicher reads three poems from his new collection, The Trembling Answers, published in April by BOA Editions.
Every Turning
Every turning toward is a turning away:poets have always known the truthof this. I...
The Poetry Project at Fifty, New York Times’ New Book Advice Column, and More
This year’s top ten frequently challenged books; unique Little Free Libraries; fast-growing independent publishers; and other news.
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The Aha! Moment: Kendra Kopelke and Mary Azrael of Passager Books
As part of a continuing series, Kendra Kopelke and Mary Azrael, coeditors of Passager Books, discuss how a short, quiet poem by eighty-year-old poet Jean Connor came to win the Passager Poetry Prize in 2001.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Compose a collaborative renga with a friend, inject surreal motifs into your fiction, and explore your relationship with a parent or child through the lens of one embarrassing memory—three prompts to keep your pen on the page this spring.
Anatomy of a Pulitzer Prize Letter
A close look at the letter recommending Gwendolyn Brooks as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1950 reveals more than just the reigning aesthetics of that time.
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