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Judy Blume announced today she is battling cancer; Amherst College Archives and Special Collections are displaying a new daguerreotype of poet Emily Dickinson, making it the second known adult image; Nichole Bernier discusses how publishing a novel may change your life; and other news.
Write a story with two major threads, each with two characters. For example, the first could be a man and a woman driving in a car–where are they going? what happens along the way? what are they discussing? The second thread could be about two boys in a canoe–do they get along? what is the relationship between them? what happens to cause tension between them? Switch back and forth between each thread, spinning each of the stories. Find a way to slowly weave the stories together: Do the two sets of characters cross paths? Are they somehow related? Is one story something that happened in the past of a character from the other story?
Bob Hicok's "Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry" gets dramatic in documentarian Joanna Kohler's adaptation, produced by Motionpoems.
Union resources for writers; first-time author David Abrams details the road to publication of his satirical novel, Fobbit; Richard Bach, the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, was injured in a small plane crash; and other news.
Write a poem that incorporates the following words: transfer, single, impend, knot, rhapsody, revue, air lock.
In this short video produced by Columbia School of Journalism's Mariana Ionova, poet Alex Ustach talks about her work in a perfumery in New York City and how perfume and poetry intertwine.
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine have announced the winners of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships. The prestigious $15,000 awards are given annually to five emerging United States poets between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one.
The 2012 fellows are: Reginald Dwayne Betts, the author of a poetry collection, Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books, 2010), and a memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (Avery, 2009); Nicholas Friedman, a lecturer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; Richie Hofmann, who has received an Academy of American Poets Prize and the AWP Intro Journal Award for Poetry; Rickey Laurentiis, whose poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, the Indiana Review, and jubilat; and Jacob Saenz, who received the Letras Latinas Residency Fellowship in 2011 and is currently an associate editor of the poetry magazine RHINO.
The editors of Poetry magazine chose the winning manuscripts from more than a thousand submissions. On the Poetry Foundation website, editor Christian Wiman said of the winners, “The history of Poetry is filled with some of the best-known names in American poetry; my guess is that these young poets will be among those we'll be talking about in the years to come.”
The five Ruth Lilly Fellows will have their work featured in the November issue of Poetry and on the Poetry Foundation website.
Established in 1989 by philanthropist Ruth Lilly to “encourage the further writing and study of poetry,” the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship program gives $75,000 in fellowship prizes each year. The program is operated by the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation, which also publishes Poetry magazine.
Founded by poet, editor, and literary scholar Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly magazine dedicated to the form. The magazine has published the work of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Carl Sandburg, among many other distinguished poets, as well as numerous emerging writers. The Poetry Foundation is a literary organization that “exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.”
The 2012 Ruth Lilly Prize in Poetry, an annual award of $100,000 given by the Poetry Foundation to a living United States poet, was awarded to poet W. S. Di Piero this past spring.
For over four decades poet Larry Fagin has delivered no-nonsense writing advice during private classes held in a setting that is decidedly unacademic: his own New York City apartment.
For the thirty-two-year-old author whose first novel, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, is out in September 2012 from Riverhead Books, the years of hard work and rejection, during which she wrote four failed novels, are finally paying off.
Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey, whose fourth poetry collection, Thrall, is out this month, has far exceeded the woefully low expectations some had placed on her. And the new poet laureate is just getting started.
