Poets Protest Guns in the Classroom
Poets and educators work to fight campus carry bills.
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My Past and Future Assassin: A Profile of Terrance Hayes
In his sixth book, a sonnet sequence published by Penguin in June, Terrance Hayes cuts deep, to the marrow of the American moment, in a form with a razor’s edge: love poems for the forces trying to kill you.
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Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
Described as “a lamentation aimed at providing clarity,” Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country is Steve Almond's effort to make sense of our historical moment using literary voices, including Melville, Orwell, Bradbury, and Baldwin.
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Q&A: Sarah Browning Splits This Rock
Split This Rock’s outgoing executive director on the intersection of poetry and politics, and the organization’s upcoming festival.
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Diving Through Windows
An exploration of windows as creative tools: how they expand our horizons in the world and in writing, acting as frames for observation and portals to the new worlds we discover in our art.
Bullets Into Bells
Poets, activists, and survivors respond to gun violence in a new anthology of poems and essays from Beacon Press.
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Q&A: Wilson Leads the Feminist Press
Jamia Wilson, the new executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press, shares her plans to advance the press’s mission of championing marginalized voices.
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Emily Dickinson and the Power of Language, Poetry of Politics and Place, and More
Library of Congress launches web portal to explore its digital collections; Milkweed Editions to publish the late Max Ritvo’s second book; Barnes & Noble donates to hurricane-affected areas; and other news.
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Literature and the Environment
At a time when the environment faces increasing threats, scholars and writers gather to promote conversation and interdisciplinary research about literature and environmental sustainability.
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Books by Refugees in America, Writers Plan to Lobby at AWP, and More
Women’s Prize for Fiction seeks new sponsor; Roxane Gay’s ABA conference keynote; Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s return to fiction; and other news.
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