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:

The state of Kentucky has appointed Frank X Walker its new poet laureate [2]. Walker is Kentucky's first African American poet to hold the position. (WFPL)

Meanwhile, Rosemary Catacalo has been named Texas Poet Laureate [3]. (San Antonio Current)

Editors of Wikipedia created a sub-category for “American women novelists [4],” and began moving women writers out of the “American novelists” category. (Salon)

After a brief hospitalization, poet Maya Angelou is resting at home [5], and canceled this week's scheduled event at Butler University. (USA Today)

New York Daily News attended this past weekend's premiere Brooklyn Literary Walking Tour [6].

Ester Bloom refutes the claim [7] that male readers don't read female authors. (Slate)

Brain Pickings retells the genesis of the venerable Paris Review [8].

D. H. Lawrence's nude mulberry tree climbing, Ted Hughes the bee keeper [9]—Flavorwire rounded up the odd obsessions of literary greats.