Q&A: Youth Poet Laureate Daniel Umemezie
Daniel Umemezie, the national youth poet laureate, discusses the impact of poetry on his formative years, art as a door to empathy, and the value of cultivating a creative life.
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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.
Small Press Points: Lost Kite Editions
New press Lost Kite Editions, launched earlier this year in Minneapolis, has grown out of a partnership between writers incarcerated in Minnesota prisons and non-incarcerated writers from the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
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Literary MagNet: Joe Wilkins
The nonfiction writer Joe Wilkins highlights journals that have published his essays, including Orion Magazine and River Teeth.
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Redefining Canon From the Outside
A new imprint is redefining classic literature, reissuing books that were previously overlooked.
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Poetry and Public Lands
Installations, workshops, and other initiatives celebrate literature in national parks, allowing nature and poetry to illuminate each other.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Perfect Italian by Kiki Petrosino and Triage by Clauda Rankine.
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The Authors Guild Confronts AI
The Human Authored Certification Mark seeks to restore trust between readers and writers.
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The Written Image: The In Gratitude Initiative
Inspired by Ross Gay’s poetry, Just Buffalo Literary Center embarked on a six-month project this year to explore patterns of gratitude and delight with their local literary community.
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A New Home for Translators in San Francisco
The Center for the Art of Translation will move into a new brick-and-mortar, three-story cultural space in 2027, just blocks from the legendary City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
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Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison
Spearheaded by Ohio Humanities and Literary Cleveland, a yearlong commemoration of Toni Morrison’s oeuvre is underway, featuring statewide, national, and virtual events.
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Small Press Points: Slant Books
Founded in 2013 by Greg Wolfe and now based in Seattle, Slant Books takes up Emily Dickinson’s encouragement to her reader: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including If You Love That Lady by Maya C. Popa and Without Terminus by chaun webster.
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Literary MagNet: Aamina Ahmad
The fiction writer Aamina Ahmad highlights journals that have published her short stories, narratives “interested in the way contemporary Pakistani society functions,” and “the pressures it exerts on ordinary people.”
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The Written Image: Library Checkout Cards by Heidi Pitre
An artist transforms library checkout cards into handmade odes to literary works with illustrations in gouache.
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Q&A: World Literature Today at 100
Daniel Simon, the editor in chief of World Literature Today, discusses how literature can promote cross-cultural dialogue and how the journal has evolved ahead of its centennial.
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Librarians Aren’t Afraid of AI
Undaunted by the emergent technology, librarians reflect on the need for AI literacy and the undeniably human components of their job.
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Small Press Points: 42 Miles
Founded in 2010 at Indiana University in South Bend, 42 Miles Press publishes “stirring, daring” poetry and encourages authors to submit work they “might be afraid to send elsewhere.”
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The Hellbender Gathering of Poets
Poets gather in Black Mountain, North Carolina, to reflect on our climate-changed world.
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The Closure of CCA
As the California College of the Arts prepares to shut down in spring 2027, students and faculty at the state’s oldest private arts school are left in the lurch.
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A Poetry Prize Without Borders
New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Giramondo partner for a new translated poetry prize, connecting literary communities across the globe.
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The Written Image: Friends Who Came to See Me
The Morgan Library & Museum illuminates the poet John Ashbery’s artistic and personal influences through an exhibition of manuscripts and twenty-five works on paper.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla and I Was Bonnie & Clyde by Laura Kasischke.
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Q&A: Gumnit Leads Little Free Library
The new executive director and CEO of Little Free Library discusses the power of community organizing and the importance of championing banned and diverse books.
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Literary MagNet: Alan Chazaro
The poet Alan Chazaro highlights journals that have published his poems, which meditate on the “physical and social dimensions” of space.
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The Written Image: Rewriting the World
A new exhibition at the Center for Book Arts in New York City focuses on Isidore Isou and the postwar, avant-garde artistic movement he spearheaded in France.
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