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Art Above Money 22 Nov 2010 | 11:24 pm
This weekend Lan Samantha Chang was interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR’s Weekend Edition. They talked about her latest novel, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost. Simon was not pulling any punches and tr...
Two Poets Share the 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 18 Nov 2010 | 04:36 am
Last night in Washington, D. C. Rita Dove was awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, which honors authors of African descent in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, and, of course poetry. Dove receive...
The Word Exchange: Anglo Saxon Poems in Translation 13 Nov 2010 | 12:20 am
On December 6th, W. W. Norton published The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation edited by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto. It collects new translations of the best known poems of the Old En...
Video: Sandra Beasley Talks About the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award 20 Oct 2010 | 10:42 pm
In a promotional video created by Poets and Writers Magazine, Sandra Beasley shares her inspiring story of going from working a day job and trying to write on the side to being a full-time writer in t...
Shedding Light on Hacker’s ‘For Kateb Yacine’ 2 Oct 2010 | 04:36 am
There is a poem in Marilyn Hacker’s latest collection, Names, titled, “For Kateb Yacine.” For those that don’t know, Yacine was an Algerian playwright, novelist, poet, and activist who passed away in ...
Lucky Life 18 Sep 2010 | 12:00 am
“Behaving Like a Jew, Underground Dancing, and I Remember Galileo” by Gerald Stern Gerald Stern, the author of sixteen poetry collections, has won the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Aw...
The Poems That Stick With Us 16 Jul 2010 | 07:32 pm
This week we’ve been finding out a lot about how accomplished poets feel about their earliest published work. We’ve asked Beth Ann Fennelly, Eavan Boland, Linda Pastan, and Stephen Dunn what they thin...
The Best Poems in Their Best Order 15 Jul 2010 | 08:59 pm
Yesterday we asked four poets how the feel about the work they published years ago. Now, the same four poets tell us how they struggled to find the best order for the poems in their debut collection. ...
The Test of Time 14 Jul 2010 | 09:05 pm
The recent publication of Gerald Stern’s Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992 made us curious about how poets feel about their early work. Would they agree with Pericles when he said, “Time is the wisest ...
People, Poetry, and Videotape 9 Jul 2010 | 12:39 am
Following a tip from Poets & Writers on Twitter, I just read an article in Canada’s National Post about Katherine Leyton. Leyton is a young poet from Toronto who, with the help of a few friends, has b...
