Blind Ambition: A Q&A With Gregory Pardlo

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet talks about his new book, Air Traffic: A Memoir or Ambition and Manhood in America.
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet talks about his new book, Air Traffic: A Memoir or Ambition and Manhood in America.
The editor of Black Renaissance Noire on the importance of publishing new and emerging writers.
Responses to AWP executive director David Fenza’s departure have been met by silence from the organization’s board.
On March 11 the board of directors of AWP ended its relationship with the organization’s long-time executive director, David Fenza. “I had no warnings,” he says.
The Pulitzer Prize winner offers his personal perspective on the idea of “home” in his foreword to Go Home!, a new anthology of fiction, memoir, and poetry by Asian diasporic writers.
Dan Beachy-Quick explores the infinite possibilities of poetry and the idea that metaphor can be a philosophy, and poetic craft a means of living a life.
Poet Dan Beachy-Quick considers rhyme, easily derided in workshop but able to make of the mind a wind-chime.
Dan Beachy-Quick imagines the poem as a peacock with tail outspread, and the phosphorescent circle on each feather an actual eye. The poem lets us see through every eye.
Novelists Caroline Leavitt and Jonathan Evison discuss the books that just didn’t work.
Split This Rock’s outgoing executive director on the intersection of poetry and politics, and the organization’s upcoming festival.
A former writing teacher explores the best methods for encouraging new talent.
A London-based initiative works to collect and archive poems in endangered languages.
Dionisia Morales on five journals that published essays from her debut collection, Homing Instincts.
A small press based in Austin, Texas, and Des Moines offers a new model for submissions.
Independent publicists Lauren Cerand, Kima Jones, and Michael Taeckens on what they do for authors.
The first lines of a dozen new books, including Feel Free by Zadie Smith.
Described as “a lamentation aimed at providing clarity,” Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country is Steve Almond's effort to make sense of our historical moment using literary voices, including Melville, Orwell, Bradbury, and Baldwin.
A novelist describes her progress as she writes her fourth book, The Great Believers, across five residencies, from 2014 to 2017.
What to expect once you’ve published your debut book.
The author of The Loss of All Lost Things on the retreat in Cassis, France.
The author of The Refugees on the retreat in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The author of The Ministry of Special Cases on the retreat in New York City.
The author of Sweetness #9 on the retreat in Red Wing, Minnesota.
The author of What We Do With the Wreckage on the retreat in Mineral, Washington
The author of Shahid Reads His Own Palm on the retreat in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.