Peace Stanzas Helps Commemorate Kent State Anniversary, One Million iPads Sold, and More

by Staff
5.4.10

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:

Today is the fortieth anniversary of the tragic shootings at Kent State University. As part of the commemoration efforts, the university's Wick Poetry Center is promoting peace and reconciliation through Peace Stanzas, a series of posters that combine poems and graphic designs by Kent State students.

One Book, One Twitter, the worldwide book club initiative started by a contributing editor at Wired, has chosen Neil Gaiman's American Gods as its first title. (Guardian)

Apple sold a million iPads in the first month, the Wall Street Journal reported.

A three-alarm fire in Portland, Oregon, ravaged the Great Northwest Bookstore this Sunday, destroying one hundred thousand books and the 120-year-old building itself. (OregonLive)

In support of Virginia Tech's billion-dollar capital campaign, the poet Nikki Giovanni has bequeathed to the university copyrights to all of her literary works after her death. (Washington Examiner

A new film titled Poetry, about, among other things, a Korean grandmother trying to write a "piece of poetry," will compete for the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival next month. (Korea Times)

The Seattle Times marked National Poetry Month with a Twitter poetry contest, and the results are in.

Publishers Weekly's Web site has a new look.