Poets House Suspends Operations
Poets House, a beloved New York City public poetry library, announced yesterday that it will suspend operations, effective immediately, due to financial issues brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“Subtlety can be a form of authority.” —Simon Han, author of Nights When Nothing Happened
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The Economy of Poetry Prizes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reviews Barack Obama Memoir, and More
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Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, forthcoming from Grove Press on March 2, 2021.
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Penguin Random House to establish new Spanish-language division; the National Black Writers Conference is taking place this week; Valzhyna Mort reflects on music, poetry, and love; and other stories.
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