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 »
Bridging gaps between poets
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 »
Study reveals the neurological differences between poetry and prose
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 »
John Ashbery’s things
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 »
One woman spends a year reading a book for each nation
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 »
One library’s unused card catalog becomes art
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 »
Poetry magazine expands definition of children’s literature, publishes Lemony Snicket and John Ashbery
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 »
“Whitman And Wilde Almost Certainly Had Sex”
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 »
“And we feel seen”: Memoir as shared space
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 »
Faber & Faber releases Sylvia Plath: Drawings
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 »