Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

French fiction writer and essayist Tristane Banon announced plans to file sexual assault charges against former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was arrested in New York City in May after similar claims were brought against him by a hotel employee. In response, Strauss-Kahn's lawyers have threatened counter-suit for slander. (Slate [2])

Poet Rick Holland collaborates with musician and producer Brian Eno on a new album, released today, of spoken word, "left field electronica, New Age soundscapes, and oblique pop songs." (Washington Times [3])

Iowa City's literary festival is looking for its own stable of collaborators on Twitter, to contribute to a novel-writing project set to take place from July 15 to July 17. (Daily Iowan [4])

Censorship in China may not be such a bad thing for authors, CNN GO [5] suggests, with "book tourists" traveling from the mainland to Hong Kong to purchase—and bring home with relative ease—banned titles.

For literary tourists on the western side of the continent, the Telegraph [6] rounds up writer's homes to visit in England.

One way to prevent summer brain drain, an improvisational literary game works out those prose-writing muscles. (New York Times [7])

Vanity Fair [8] reimagines the stylized, "vanilla-absurdist" marketing copy of Groupon's daily offers through the ink of literary greats.

Recalling his years as "a young man who needed a good talking to," writer Michael Bourne found a "poetical declaration of independence" in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. (The Millions [9])