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Joy Harjo will serve a third term as US poet laureate

Posted on 11/24/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Joy Harjo has become only the second person to serve a third term as US poet laureate. Harjo, also the...

Read a poem from Margaret Atwood's new collection

Posted on 11/13/2020 at 10:11 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Margaret Atwood’s latest poetry collection, Dearly, came out on Tuesday. If you haven’t gotten your hands on a copy of...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Excerpt, Literary Hub, Poetry

Welsh resort pays homage to poet Dylan Thomas

Posted on 10/27/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Sharing information about a Welsh resort seems both fitting and completely tone-deaf right now. It’s fitting because we’re spreading the...

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Tagged As: Literary Hub, Literary tourism, Poetry

Shortlists for the 2020 T.S. Eliot and Baillie Gifford prizes are out

Posted on 10/15/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We have two shortlists for literary prizes to share today. The T.S. Eliot Prize honors the year’s best new poetry...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Book lists, Nonfiction, Poetry

Poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel in Literature

Posted on 10/08/2020 at 08:08 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Poet Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the first American woman to do so...

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Tagged As: Awards, NPR, Poetry, The Bookseller, The Guardian

Barbara Kingsolver talks about pursuing her passion for poetry

Posted on 09/28/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many of us know Barbara Kingsolver best through her novels, such as The Poisonwood Bible and Unsheltered. She, however, knows...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, NPR, Poetry

Here's the 2020 longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry

Posted on 09/17/2020 at 01:56 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry came out today. All of the poets on the list are...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Book lists, Poetry

Group wants French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine in the Pantheon

Posted on 09/10/2020 at 10:12 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The next time you visit Paris, there may be some new faces (so to speak) in the Pantheon. Agence France-Presse...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Literary tourism, Poetry

T.S. Eliot estate sends a large donation to the Brontë Parsonage Museum

Posted on 09/08/2020 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Brontë Parsonage Museum launched a crowdfunding campaign in July in hopes of closing a forecasted year-end deficit of £100,000...

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Tagged As: Charity, Classic literature, coronavirus / COVID-19, Literary tourism, Poetry, The Guardian

Meet the 4-year-old poet whose work will be published next year

Posted on 07/23/2020 at 10:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You can definitely call the latest British poetry sensation a wunderkind. After all, Nadim Shamma-Sourgen — whose collection of poems...

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Tagged As: Poetry, The Guardian

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