Emily Skaja has been announced as winner of the 2018 Walt Whitman Award for her full-length poetry manuscript, Brute. The..
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Eight (8) writers from diverse backgrounds have been announced as winners of this year’s Windham-Campbell prizes. Recipients of this year’s..
Born in 1993, Okwudili Nebeolisa is a Nigerian writer whose works have appeared in Commonwealth Writers, Threepenny Review, The Cincinnati Review,..
Tōta Kaneko, a famous Haiku poet, has died at 98 from acute respiratory distress syndrome. Born in 1919 in Saitama..
The Claremont Graduate University has announced Patricia Smith as winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her collection,..
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has elected poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander as its new president. Succeeding Earl Lewis who..
D.M. Aderibigbe has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Brittingham Prize in Poetry for his full-length poetry manuscript,..
Our bodies are never mute: hormones, stimuli; a million impulses all steering the human being, some we recognize, some we..
I made a resolution to only read poetry and essays/memoirs this New Year. An intuitive urge to stay in contact..
Terri Witek has been announced as the winner of the Slope Editions’ 16th Annual Book Prize for her poetry manuscript,..