The Archive and the Everyday
The author of Spoken Word: A Cultural History and The Study of Human Life examines the power of recovering lost literary voices.
Tags:
Genre: Poetry
America Will Be
Caption:
“I am now at the age where my father calls me brother / when we say goodbye.” In this Voices Underground video, Joshua Bennett reads his poem “America Will Be,” which appears in his collection Owed (Penguin, 2020), for the 2021 Chester County Juneteenth Festival at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. For more from Bennett, read his essay “A Shed Full of Golden Shovels” from our Craft Capsules series.
Genre:
Small Press Points: The Feminist Press
Guided by a mandate to seek out and amplify underrepresented voices, the Feminist Press publishes twelve to fifteen books a year in multiple genres and holds open submission periods twice annually.
Tags:
Big Change to Canadian Poetry Prize
After more than two decades, the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize will no longer divide its award into Canadian and international categories, drawing mixed responses from the Canadian literary world.
Tags:
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including As If She Had a Say by Jennifer Fliss and So to Speak by Terrance Hayes.
Tags:
Happy Birthday by Hannah Sullivan
Caption:
“The first half having been / given up to space, I decided / to devote my remaining life to time, this thing we live / on fishily or on like moss,” reads Hannah Sullivan from her poem “Happy Birthday,” which appears in her collection Was It for This, in this Faber & Faber video featuring photographs and archival footage.
Genre:
Charged by Imagination
“The poem is an opportunity to turn from memoiristic transcription of information towards a kind of ultimate artifact, charged and changed by the imagination,” says Ocean Vuong about his approach to storytelling in this interview by Kadish Morris for the Guardian. Vuong offers his poem “American Legend” as an example in which the speaker drives his father to put down their dog and crashes the car, which becomes “a kind of parable for American failure.” In actuality, Vuong does not drive but uses the story to consider relationships between fathers and sons. Inspired by this concept of imaginative writing, write a poem that deliberately alters an event in your life. How can your expansion of this event make for a deeper parable?
Garth Greenwell and Maggie Millner
Caption:
Maggie Millner reads from her debut poetry collection, Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), and Garth Greenwell reads from his forthcoming novel currently titled Small Rain for this reading and conversation moderated by Meghan O’Rourke at Yale University as part of the Yale Review’s Spring 2023 Literary Festival.
A Shed Full of Golden Shovels
The author of Spoken Word: A Cultural History and The Study of Human Life considers how poets collaborate across time and form.
Tags:
Pass the Mic: New Directions in Poetics
Caption:
In this event hosted by Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, poets and professors Erica Hunt, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Matthew Shenoda, and Mary-Kim Arnold share their work and discuss their creative processes in a conversation moderated by Lisa Biggs.
Genre:
Pages
