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:

Author James Lasdun details how it feels to be stalked and attacked online [2] by a former MFA student. (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Meanwhile, the New York Times examines how Amazon book reviews are used as "attack weapons [3]."

Richard Blanco's "One Today" was not the only poem written for president Obama's inauguration yesterday—Yahoo! News commissioned poems [4] from James Tate, Paul Muldoon, and others.

Ms. magazine lists its favorite books of poetry by women released in 2012 [5], including Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, and Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes.

Electric Literature asked several book lovers and writers what they're excited to read in 2013 [6].

Notorious for declining Hollywood interest, David Sedaris explains why he allowed Kyle Patrick Alvarez to make a film adaptation of “C.O.G. [7]," an essay that was published in his 1997 book Naked. (Los Angeles Times)

This past Saturday marked Edgar Allan Poe's two hundred and fourth birthday [8]. On its blog, the publisher Tor writes: "But while the invention of Horror and Detective fiction remain the tent-poles of Poe’s reputation, the man’s intellectual scope as a writer stretched far beyond the macabre."

And on author Dani Shapiro's blog, she discusses the importance of taking risks [9].

Random House created a Facebook app—BookScout [10]. (Shelf Awareness)