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:

Literary agent Jason Allen Ashlock makes the argument that those in his profession should not also act as publishers, calling the trend [2] a "crisis of professional ethics." (Publishing Perspectives [3])

Part of a government-encouraged effort to achieve privately-funded space flight—which includes companies such as Virgin Galactic and SpaceX—an unmanned spaceship built by Blue Origin, which is funded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, lost control and was destroyed during a recent test flight. (Wall Street Journal [4])

In other Amazon news, TechCrunch [5] reports the rumors of a soon-to-be-released Kindle Tablet "are very real."

Frank Shay’s bookstore, a shop in New York City's Greenwich Village, existed for a mere five years during the first half of the 1920s, when the Village was a literary hothouse. A popular hangout for luminaries and scenesters alike, many of the denizens of Shay's signed a door inside the establishment, and in 1960, the salvaged door was purchased by the Ransom Center at the University of Texas. A new exhibition, The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920–1925, identifies almost two hundred signatures, including those of Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson. (New York Times [6])

England's poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, claims the art of texting is good practice for the writing of poetry, and the twitterverse has responded with writers posting poems with the #tweetpoem [7] hashtag. (Guardian [8])

If you're curious if this week—with everyone returning from vacation—is a great time to pitch or query an agent or editor, GalleyCat [9] says, no, this week is the absolute worst.

Vol. 1 Brooklyn [10] offers a few thoughts on Ernest Hemingway's beautiful descendants.

The Christian Science Monitor [11] lists twenty upcoming nonfiction titles they are most excited about, with new books by Susan Orlean, Margaret Atwood, and Joan Didion.

Poets, in stamp form! (Harriet [12])