Posted on 10/15/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist has been released, and judges have seen a distinct thread beyond the main criterion...
Posted on 10/15/2021 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
NASA’s Lucy mission is set to launch early tomorrow morning, and several esteemed authors will be on board … figuratively....
Posted on 10/12/2021 at 03:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
On this day almost sixty years ago, Sylvia Plath wrote her well-known poem “Daddy.” While it wasn’t published until after...
Posted on 10/09/2021 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first man elected as president of Senegal after its independence, was born on this day in...
Posted on 10/07/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Edgar Allan Poe died on this day in 1849, days after being found incoherent and semi-consciousness. Though his ending was...
Posted on 10/04/2021 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
In just a few weeks, the first Maya Angelou Book Award for poetry will be handed out. The award will...
Posted on 10/03/2021 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A lock of hair purportedly from poet Emily Dickinson is for sale on eBay, with an asking price of nearly...
Posted on 09/29/2021 at 01:52 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The next owner of 75½ Bedford St. in New York City will have many reasons to boast about their house....
Posted on 09/25/2021 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Today is the birthday of two late greats: novelist William Faulkner (September 25, 1897) and poet Shel Silverstein (September 25,...
Posted on 09/16/2021 at 10:46 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry came out today. Out of 290 submissions, these ten — nine...
