The Written Image: Ice Receding/Books Reseeding
Artist Basia Irland carves book sculptures out of ice and embeds them with seeds that populate riverbanks when the sculptures melt.
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Article Archive: News and Trends
Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
An Alaska Retreat for Women Writers
Mystery writer Dana Stabenow supports female-identifying and nonbinary writers with a new residency in Homer, Alaska, inspired by the retreat that changed her life.
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Literary MagNet: Eric Tran
An author recommends five journals that published poems from his debut collection, The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer.
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At Home With Elizabeth Bishop
The Key West Literary Seminar has acquired the former Florida residence of poet Elizabeth Bishop and will turn the house into a public haven for poetry and prose.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit and Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
A round-up of three new anthologies, including River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction and Poems From the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages.
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Small Press Points: The Cupboard Pamphlet
The small press annually publishes four chapbooks of “formally strange or conceptually bizarre” prose.
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594 Ways of Reading Jane Eyre
A research project called Prismatic Jane Eyre compares the many translations of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, studying the ways each reflects the culture in which it was created.
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Q&A: Cisneros Celebrates Macondo
The author of The House on Mango Street on the origins and impact of the Macondo Writers Workshop, which has brought together writers who are activists for twenty-five years.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
A look inside three new anthologies, including A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary.
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The Written Image: Shelley Jackson’s “Snow”
An author tells a fantastical story by writing it a word at a time in the snow.
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Graphic Narrative Workshops
Courses in graphic storytelling gain popularity at MFA programs, workshops, and community spaces across the United States.
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Small Press Points: Trembling Pillow Press
The New Orleans press publishes four or five poetry titles a year in an eclectic range of styles.
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Literary MagNet: Beth Peterson
An author recommends five journals that published essays from her debut collection, Dispatches From the End of Ice.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books including Cleanness by Garth Greenwell and Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu.
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An Indie Alternative to Amazon?
Andy Hunter, the cofounder of Electric Literature and Literary Hub, launches Bookshop, an e-commerce platform that promises indie bookstores a way to take back sales from Amazon.
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Ahsahta Press Closes Its Doors
After more than forty years of publishing innovative poetry, Ahsahta Press will shutter in June 2020.
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Q&A: Kelly Link Returns to Bookselling
The fiction writer on the twentieth anniversary of Small Beer Press and the opening of Book Moon, a bookstore in Massachusetts that she co-owns with her husband, Gavin J. Grant.
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The Second Shelf
In a tiny bookshop in London, writer A. N. Devers spotlights women’s writing by only stocking rare books and modern first editions by female authors.
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The Written Image: Heaven’s Vault
Heaven’s Vault, a video game by inkle, requires players to translate the runes of an ancient language.
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Small Press Points: Unnamed Press
Unnamed Press, an L.A.–based press, aims to publish story-driven books by underrepresented or marginalized voices.
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Q&A: A Century of Yale Younger Poets
Carl Phillips, the longtime judge of the Yale Younger Poets prize and the editor of the anthology Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, on how the prize has evolved during the past century.
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Literary MagNet: Leigh Camacho Rourks
The author on five journals that published pieces from her story collection, Moon Trees and Other Orphans.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Grand Union by Zadie Smith and Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout.
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Narrative Medicine for Doctors
A narrative medicine program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison helps doctors care for themselves and others through storytelling.
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