Posted on May 25, 2023 at 7:48 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
A single complaint has led to restrictions on who can read Amanda Gorman's The Hill We Climb at a Florida...
Posted on April 11, 2023 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
April is National Poetry Month, and NPR's latest piece to commemorate it is the very definition of inclusive. Scott Detrow...
Posted on February 15, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
On this day in 2010, writer, poet, and activist Maya Angelou was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Then-President Barack...
Posted on February 14, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Those who believe Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was murdered appear to officially be right. Neruda's nephew told a Spanish news...
Posted on February 12, 2023 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Author Meena Kandasamy recently completed a new translation of one portion of the Thirukkural — an ancient collection of verses...
Posted on February 3, 2023 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The contenders for the new incarnation of the Rathbones Folio Prize have been announced. For 2023, the prize has expanded...
Posted on February 1, 2023 at 2:08 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
When the Europa Clipper spacecraft heads out to Jupiter's second moon, it will bear something very special: a poem written...
Posted on January 17, 2023 at 1:54 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Congratulations are in order for Anthony Joseph, whose Sonnets for Albert won the 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize. Britain’s most prestigious...
Posted on January 10, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The following three writers have died in the past month, and while they might not be household names to all...
Posted on January 3, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
If you're sensitive to book mistreatment, skip this item ... ... but a rare, albeit incomplete, first edition of Robert...
