Call This Mutiny: Uncollected Poems by Craig Santos Perez
Q&A: Arleta Little Leads the Loft at Fifty
The executive director of the Loft Literary Center, a literary arts nonprofit in Minneapolis, celebrates the organization’s fifty years of connecting authors with audiences and reflects on future plans.
The Written Image: Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House Library Books
Twenty tiny books, including poetry collections, short tales, plays, and other works, were added this year to the miniature library collection in Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House to celebrate the royal dollhouse’s centennial anniversary.
Small Press Points: Airlie Press
Founded seventeen years ago to support poetry from the Pacific Northwest, Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher guided by a unique rotating editorial board of poets from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Connecting Writers to Agents of Color
The Equity Directory is just one of the resources that the Literary Agents of Color initiative has developed to increase visibility of BIPOC agents and encourage new, fruitful relationships between agents and authors.
The End of Small Press Distribution
The closure of Small Press Distribution, a nonprofit that served nearly four hundred publishers, is prompting a reimagining of how books get into readers’ hands as independent publishers search for viable alternatives.
Jiaming Tang: Cinema Love
In this virtual event hosted by Prince George’s County Memorial Library System in Maryland, Jiaming Tang reads from his debut novel, Cinema Love (Dutton, 2024), and discusses writing about forbidden queer love and the immigrant experiences that were crucial to his work. Tang is featured in “First Fiction 2024” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Coming Down Hard
“The sun had just gone out / and I was walking three miles to get home. / I wanted to die. / I couldn’t think of words and I had no future / and I was coming down hard on everything.” In Linda Gregg’s poem “New York Address,” which appears in her retrospective collection, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2008), the speaker recounts bleak existential angst. Despite the pain and darkness, there are glimmers of light. In the second half of the poem, questions are stubbornly answered with snappy, tidy pacing: “Yes I hate dark. No I love light. Yes I won’t speak. / No I will write.” Write a poem that goes all in on angst, channeling a time that felt overwhelmingly uncertain and full of trepidation. How can you experiment with sound and diction to gently steer the dramatic toward the life-affirming?
Lilly Dancyger: First Love
“In each of my close relationships, I feel like I get to be a different version of myself.” In this Books Are Magic event, Lilly Dancyger speaks with Leslie Jamison about how she tackled writing about her closest friendships in her first essay collection, First Love: Essays on Friendship (Dial Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.



