Twenty-Two Ways to Teach Poetry, Legitimizing Writing Ambition, and More
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist announced; the intersections of poetry and fashion; the cultural range and wit of the late Umberto Eco; and other news.
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National Poetry Month, George Takei’s Graphic Memoir, and More
Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died; Abbad Yahya’s novel banned in Palestine; novels about female friendship; and other news.
Roxane Gay With Saeed Jones
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“I think that the biggest thing people need to embrace is discomfort.” At the 92nd Street Y, Roxane Gay reads from her short story collection Difficult Women (Grove Press, 2017) and discusses topics from writing and feminism to Channing Tatum with poet Saeed Jones.
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Dominican University of California
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
San Rafael, CA
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Mon, 12/01/2025
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HBO to Air Television Miniseries of Ferrante Novels, Bro Books, and More
Black Mountain Institute acquires the Believer; American Prison Writing Archive receives a $262,000 grant; the public versus the private life of the writer; and other news.
Nan Talese’s Rise to Success, Litbait, and More
Bob Dylan to finally accept Nobel Prize this weekend; a recently discovered cache of letters from the suffrage movement; Christopher Soto wins Split This Rock’s social justice and poetry award; and other news.
AP Style Guide Adds “They” as Singular Pronoun, Writer Automatons, and More
Penguin Random House sales down in 2016; William McPherson has died; fourteen women essayists to read right now; and other news.
Quick Riff
NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest had over six thousand entries this year, and was unanimously won by hip-hop and R&B band Tank and the Bangas. One of the techniques the band incorporates is a kind of lyric dialogue between Tarriona “Tank” Ball and Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph who share singing roles, much like two best friends finishing each other’s sentences. Work on a piece of dialogue between two characters who interrupt each other, or riff off of a stream of consciousness flow in conversation. How might you use this technique to build tension in a story?
PEN Literary Awards, Amazon to Adapt The Underground Railroad, and More
Rigoberto González on the life of the poet outside of publications and awards; a survey of literary nonprofits fighting to protect free speech and the arts; the reality-bending writing of Julio Cortázar; and other news.
Craft Capsule: Tolstoy’s Short Chapters
A novelist explores the finer points of writing fiction in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: the psychology of short chapters.
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