T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist announced
On October 23, the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize shortlist was released, after being culled from a longlist of 113 publisher-submitted collections of poetry. Chair of judges Ian Duhig remarked that,… Read more »
On October 23, the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize shortlist was released, after being culled from a longlist of 113 publisher-submitted collections of poetry. Chair of judges Ian Duhig remarked that,… Read more »
As reported on Harriet and The Millions, an Indiegogo campaign by Brooklyn Poets asks for funding to build “The Bridge,” a new site which would become “the world’s first poetry network connecting… Read more »
The science and technology hub RedOrbit reported this month on the University of Exeter’s recent study on reading. In his research, Professor Adam Zeman, a cognitive neurologist at Exeter’s medical school, investigated not only how… Read more »
In a recent piece for Hazlitt, Chris Randle takes the opportunity to “gawk at” John Ashbery’s possessions, even as the poetry of the famously “inscrutable elder” remains obscure. John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among… Read more »
Last month on Publishing Perspectives, Olivia Snaije interviewed and profiled Ann Morgan, a woman who—from January 1 to December 31 of 2012—“set herself the challenge to spend one year reading a… Read more »
Earlier in the summer (and recently noted at The Rumpus), the Recorder of Greenfield, Massachusetts wrote about a community college librarian who saved her library’s card catalog by transforming it. After… Read more »
The September issue of Poetry devotes twenty-odd pages to a portfolio it calls “Poetry Not Written for Children That Children Might Nevertheless Enjoy.” The section, edited and introduced by Lemony Snicket (who,… Read more »
The Toast’s Mallory Ortberg wrote last week on the potential hookup between Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde during Wilde’s 1882 lecture tour of the U.S. (On a side note, let’s hope that… Read more »
At The Millions earlier this month, Beth Kephart wrote on what she calls “the Outward-Looking Memoir” one which signifies, one which connects. Kephart begins, Why, in the end, do we read… Read more »
Along with a flurry of publications commemorating the fifty-year anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death, Faber & Faber has released a collection of the poet’s drawings edited by her daughter, Frieda… Read more »