Reviewers & Critics: Laila Lalami of the Nation
A novelist and critic discusses the book reviewing process, the role of social media in literary criticism, and much more.
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Article Archive
Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
Some Room to Breathe: In Praise of Quiet Books
A defense of books that whisper in an increasingly noisy world.
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Anatomy of Awards: The Numbers Behind Free Grants & Awards
A comparative analysis of the last three years of the magazine’s Deadlines section.
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The Love of Labor, the Labor of Love: An Interview With Carmen Giménez Smith
Poet, publisher, editor, and activist Carmen Giménez Smith, whose fifth book, Cruel Futures, is out from City Lights, has some advice for other hardworking poets: We make art to reach readers, not to win a race.
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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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In Search of Your Own Voice: A Q&A With Poet and Editor Quincy Troupe
The editor of Black Renaissance Noire on the importance of publishing new and emerging writers.
A Petition Circulates and Sides Form as AWP Board Remains Silent About Fenza
Responses to AWP executive director David Fenza’s departure have been met by silence from the organization’s board.
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David Fenza Out as Executive Director of AWP
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.
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Go Home!
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.
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Craft Capsule: Infinite Distance, or The Starry Archipelagoes
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.
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Craft Capsule: Rhyme and the Delay in Time
Poet Dan Beachy-Quick considers rhyme, easily derided in workshop but able to make of the mind a wind-chime.
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Craft Capsule: Hundreds of Eyes
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.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen new books, including Feel Free by Zadie Smith.
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Small Press Points: Gold Wake Press
A small press based in Austin, Texas, and Des Moines offers a new model for submissions.
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The Written Image: The Little Book of Feminist Saints
Julia Pierpont and Manjit Thapp’s new book features a hundred women who have changed the world.
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The Art of Publicity: How Indie Publicists Work With Writers
Independent publicists Lauren Cerand, Kima Jones, and Michael Taeckens on what they do for authors.
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Publishing Your First Book: Advice for First-Time Authors
What to expect once you’ve published your debut book.
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A Different Kind of March Madness
The Tournament of Books kicks off its fourteenth year.
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I, Too Arts Collective
A literary organization brings new life to Langston Hughes’s house in Harlem.
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The Endangered Poetry Project
A London-based initiative works to collect and archive poems in endangered languages.
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Literary MagNet: Dionisia Morales
Dionisia Morales on five journals that published essays from her debut collection, Homing Instincts.
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Anatomy of Awards: March/April 2018
A breakdown of the numbers behind the Deadlines listings in our March/April 2018 issue.
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Piano Lessons: Do Writers Need a Teacher or a Coach?
A former writing teacher explores the best methods for encouraging new talent.
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Q&A: Sarah Browning Splits This Rock
Split This Rock’s outgoing executive director on the intersection of poetry and politics, and the organization’s upcoming festival.
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Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
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.
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