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Severe Weather In The Sunshine State
Florida isn’t just the title of Lauren Groff’s new story collection, published in June by Riverhead books; It’s also a bad joke, a good home, a source of inspiration, a set of contradictions, and, perhaps, ultimately a state of mind.
Wilson Leads The Feminist Press
In July writer, activist, and media commentator Jamia Wilson was named the new executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press (FP), a forty-seven-year-old nonprofit known for highlighting feminist perspectives and prose. Located at the City University of New York, the press has published books by writers such as Shahrnush Parsipur and Ama Ata Aidoo and public figures such as Anita Hill and Justin Vivian Bond.
The Poet At Work
With a New Boo Ok of Nonfiction, Bunk, to Add to His Ten Acclaimed Poetry Collections, a New Job as Director of a Leading Research Center on Black Culture, and a New Role as Poetry Editor of the New Yorker, Kevin Young Is Fully Engaged in a Personal Program of Moving Multitudes.
I, Too Arts Collective
For nearly ten years the brownstone at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem was silent.
Sarah Browning Splits This Rock
Ten years ago, Sarah Browning and a group of fellow poets founded Split This Rock, a literary nonprofit that works at the intersection of poetry and political activism and hosts the biennial Split
On The Trail
I AM sitting in a faded-green lawn chair on the patio behind a rented house in the desert of Twentynine Palms, California. I’m here on a two-week writing and hiking retreat with my friend, the writer Jo Ann Beard.
The Poem Chooses You
The National Recitation Competition Poetry Out Loud Does More Than Teach Students How to Memorize Poems. It Opens Them Up to New Ways of Perceiving the World Around Them.