Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life by Dawn Lundy Martin
Dawn Lundy Martin reads two poems from her collection Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, published in December by Nightboat Books.
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Ferguson Public Library Sees Donations Spike, James Patterson Campaigns Against Reader Apathy, and More
PEN American Center’s Human Rights Day event; Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems reissued; poet Heather McHugh’s nonprofit; and other news.
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Indie Editor Roundtable: Washington, D.C. 2014
Melissa Faliveno, associate editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, talks with the editors of five independent presses about the kind of work they look to publish, the relationships they cultivate with their authors, and the balance between...
Internal Tapestries: A Q&A With Louise Glück
Louise Glück says a poet must be surprised by what the mind is capable of unveiling, which may explain why her twelfth book of poems, Faithful and Virtuous Night, published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, feels so startlingly alive with the wonder of discovery.
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Editors & Authors: Washington, D.C. 2014
Kevin Larimer, editor in chief of Poets & Writers, leads a conversation with editors Jeff Shotts of Graywolf Press and Chuck Adams of Algonquin Books and authors Jeffrey Yang and Amy Rowland about what it means to be published by an independent...
Resources for Writers and the Role of Community: Washington, D.C. 2014
Bonnie Rose Marcus, director of Poets & Writers’ Readings & Workshops (East), leads a discussion about resources available to writers in Washington, D.C., the importance of community, and how various literary communities can support one...
Politics and Prose Bookstore Opens Satellite Locations, Lemony Snicket Gets a Netflix Deal, and More
The case against “book-dropping”; literary characters who never die; the often-elusive titling process; and other news.
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Tom Hanks to Publish Short Story Collection, David Foster Wallace’s Fiction Syllabus, and More
Downloading Pushkin on the Moscow metro; your brain on well-constructed stories; remembering James Laughlin; and other news.
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National Novel Writing Month, Lena Dunham Cancels Book Tour Dates, and More
Publishing icon Oscar Dystel remembered; a step-by-step guide to reading poetry; illness can’t stop Clive James from writing; and other news.
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Turning Time Around: A Profile of Donald Hall
Donald Hall may not be producing any more new poems, but the eighty-six-year-old author of more than fifty books is still revising; still polishing his prose, including the pieces in his new book, Essays After Eighty; and still reminiscing about a golden age of American poetry.
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