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:

Citing “demands of family” in New York, former agent Ira Silverberg is stepping down as director of literature programs [2] for the National Endowment for the Arts, based in our nation's capital. (GalleyCat)

In other staffing news, Beth Lamb has been named associate publisher at Vintage Anchor [3]; and Kristin Kiser is starting as deputy publisher at Rodale. (Shelf Awareness)

Meanwhile, Molly Barton, global digital director of the Penguin Group, writes, “New York has declined in its power [4] as the epicenter of English language publishing.” (Huffington Post)

The New York Times reports on Apple executive Eddy Cue's testimony [5] in the DOJ's e-book pricing lawsuit.

The Financial Times looks at the work of Stanford professor Franco Moretti, who employs big data to glean literary scholarship [6]. Moretti’s book of essays on the subject, Distant Reading, is out now.

Mental Floss reveals the origins of the pen names of eight famed writers [7].

In you live in San Mateo County, California, now is your chance to be its poet laureate [8]. (San Francisco Examiner)

There will be a few changes in the new release of the venerable Oxford English Dictionary [9].