We are proud to announce that JOHN MURILLO (Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry) is the recipient of the 2024 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from St. Mary's College of Maryland (St Mary's College MD). Thursday, Feb 29 2024, 7 - 9pm: eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-t…

RIP Lyn Hejinian (1941-2024). Two from The Unfollowing in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, edited by Jeff Hilson. 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

Paul Yoon has won the 20th annual Story Prize for The Hive and the Honey.

As you know by now, our former distributor has closed, affecting hundreds of presses. As we figure out next steps, here's what you can do to help small, independent publishers, not just Noemi, a 🧵 1/x

Um túnel no fim da luz: George Dyer falcaoklein.blogspot.com/2024/02/george…

Each residency for many years after this one I would make a video with or for Bhanu. Goodbye Goddard—thank you for my colleagues, my students, my Program Directors, and all you taught me. youtu.be/LX60lRj5EFU?si…

Going to always remember the night I sat with Paul Auster drinking scotch.

Meeting Steve Albini and working with him changed the course of my life. He taught me so much about music, and life. Steve was a great friend - wise, kind and generous. I am so grateful. My thoughts are with him and his family and friends as we suffer his loss.

I thank Anthea Bell for having made it possible for me (and so many others!) to read “Austerlitz.”

When I started writing to Palestinian prisoners, I shared Bhanu Kapil’s 12 questions from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers. Written after Kapil, these are the questions I wrote in my most recent letter. I invite you to write a letter with your own questions (1/ )

This is horrifying — a clear case of political persecution by an authoritarian government. Seven Stories stands in support of our author Arundhati Roy, now facing prosecution by the Modi government for a comment she made on a panel almost 15 years ago. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Right-wing erosion of reproductive rights, LGBT rights, democratic rights etc, are part of an attack on the working class; and if you don’t believe that strong working class movements in NA can meaningfully support Palestine, pardon me if I won’t heed your strategic counsel

The Imitative Impulse | The Point Magazine thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

Love to everyone hurting today. The details in the piece are too resonant. The healing the siblings are doing is too rare. Protect kids, not sexual abusers.

Synchronize your watches. New Directions publishing 🚨ESSEX HEMPHILL🚨 is on the horizon!