Fiestas in the Desert: Postcard From Tucson
Earlier this month, Brian Turner, Buddy Wakefield, Ofelia Zepeda, and other poets gathered in the desert for the twenty-seventh annual Tucson Poetry Festival.
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PW Poetry Review Editor Among Latest Casualties of Reed Cutbacks
Yesterday, less than three months after a round of layoffs at Publishers Weekly that resulted in the departure of editor Sara Nelson, the industry trade magazine's parent company, Reed Business Information, laid off three more editors.
Doubleday Launches Logo Contest for Forthcoming Palahniuk Novel
Design-savvy fans of Chuck Palahniuk, author of novels such as Fight Club and Choke, have an opportunity to contribute to the promotional campaign for his forthcoming novel, Pygmy, to be published by Doubleday next month.
Graham, Komunyakaa, Price, and Boyle Inducted Into Arts Academy
Poets Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa and fiction writers T. C. Boyle and Richard Price will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in a ceremony next month.
PEN American Center Partners With O. Henry Prize Stories
Random House announced recently that it has partnered with the literary and human rights organization PEN American Center to publish the 2009 O. Henry Prize Stories collection.
USPS Honors Richard Wright With Stamp
The United States Postal Service unveiled a first-class stamp yesterday honoring American author and former postal employee Richard Wright. The dedication took place in the lobby of the Chicago Main Post Office, just across the street from the building where the author of Native Son once worked as a letter sorter.
The National Poetry Month Festival: Postcard from Boston
Boston-area poets and poetry fans came in from the cold last weekend to read, listen, and mingle at one of the city’s best-known literary events: the Boston National Poetry Month Festival.
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Time to Show the Agents How Easy Their Jobs Are
In response to the familiar complaint that some literary agents don't even bother to respond to author queries, agent Nathan Bransford launched on Sunday the "Be an Agent for the Day" Contest. "Think you can spot the good queries from the bad? Wondering how the view looks from our side? Think it's easy to respond to everyone?" he challenged.
Chairman of New York Center for Independent Publishing Resigns
Lloyd Jassin, chairman of the executive committee and the advisory counsel of the New York Center for Independent Publishing (NYCIP), has resigned from his posts at the organization.
Oulipian Feats: Postcard from New York City
On April 1 I had the joy of being in the audience at the New School in New York City for a reading by six poets of the Oulipo, or Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (“workshop of potential literature”), a writers group founded in France in 1960 by writer and mathematician Raymond Queneau and scientist François Le Lionnaisnown.
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