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:

“It’s career suicide, colleagues tell me, to speak out against the literary establishment; they'll smear you. [2]” For the Nation, Deborah Copaken Kogan details the obstacles she’s encountered in her storied career as a journalist and author.

Novelist Brad Leithauser considers the life of a memorable phrase [3]. (New Yorker)

Poet Christina Davis explores the significance of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land [4], rather than “wasteland.” (Poetry Foundation)

In response to GQ’s list of books all men [5] should read, Flavorwire rounded up another twenty-one books men should read [6] “by and about women.”

A similar Esquire article appeared in 2011, and in answer, Joyland magazine gathered over two hundred books by female authors [7] all men should read.

Christian Science Monitor features Robert Frost’s ten favorite books [8].

The Guardian looks at the work of Kate Tempest [9], who at age twenty-six is the first person under forty to win the Ted Hughes award for innovation in poetry, and whose “spoken-word performances have the metre and craft of traditional poetry, the kinetic agitation of hip-hop and the intimacy of a whispered heart-to-heart.”