#ClipOfTheDay: In this NBC News video, New York Times Book Review editor Gilbert Cruz talks about assembling their recently released list of top 100 books of the twenty-first century. at.pw.org/NYT100Books

#PWPoetryPrompt: Compose a poem by making random selections from found text, taking a page from the Dadaist poets of the early 1900s. #FromTheArchive: at.pw.org/Dada

#FromTheArchive: “Every time I hear the first few bars, my mind settles into a familiar groove, an acknowledgement that it is time to enter the writing space,” says Nawaaz Ahmed on writing to Astor Piazzolla’s music, in #WritersRecommend. at.pw.org/Ahmed

“One by one, try tuning in to the unconsidered parts of your body.” In today’s #CraftCapsule, Geoff Bouvier, the author of Us From Nothing, offers an exercise to become mindful of the body’s role in the act of writing. at.pw.org/embodied2

“Now, though, years have passed, and I do have more peace about my past and my process.” In today’s Ten Questions, Jay Baron Nicorvo discusses his new book, Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir, out now from UGA Press. at.pw.org/10Q4Nicorvo

Looking to read a new poetry collection? Check out Carl Phillips’s Scattered Snows, to the North (Farrar,Straus&Giroux), Percival Everett’s Sonnets for a Missing Key (Red Hen Press), and Louise Mathias’s What If the Invader Is Beautiful (Four Way Books). #PageOne at.pw.org/PageOne2024x6

#ClipOfTheDay: “The book is, in many ways, about expectations and change.” In this Fane event, Juli Min discusses her debut novel, Shanghailanders, with author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. at.pw.org/Shanghailanders

“I let myself pay closer attention to the world—flowers, insects, clouds, my heartbeat, the wind. I am gentler with myself,” writes ₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹ kinsale drake ₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹, author of The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket (UGA Press). Read more: at.pw.org/WRDrake

Veteran writer Natalie Goldberg offers pointers for writers who, out of an impulse to overthink, perfect, or anticipate their craft, overlook the daily practice (“Don’t think about it. Do it.”) and “long human lineage” of writing. #SubscriptionOnly at.pw.org/SeptOct2024

Congratulations to Christina Cooke Christina Cooke, inaugural recipient of the Poets & Writers Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center VermontStudioCenter. This newly established fellowship gives an alum of Get the Word Out, P&W’s publicity incubator for early career authors, three

#ClipOfTheDay: “If the only thing we can give to each other is ourselves, we better do it. Now.” In this inaugural Speak Now series event ColumbiaSchoolofArts, Claudia Rankine discusses the importance of literature in crises in a conversation with Sarah Cole. at.pw.org/SpeakNowRankine

Tonight at 7pm I’m talking w/ Garth Greenwell about his extraordinary new novel SMALL RAIN for Poets & Writers! The event is free but you have to register here: pw.org/live/events/th…

Zara Chowdhary describes freeing “repressed memories” and weaving the personal—her father’s passing—in with the political—“the unspoken horrors of the 2002 pogroms against Muslims in India”—in her debut novel, The Lucky Ones (Crown Publishing). Read more: at.pw.org/ZaraChowdhary

#ClipOfTheDay: In this 2023 Segue Reading Series event hosted by Artists Space, Jackie Wang reads from her book Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood and Eileen Myles reads from their latest poetry collection, a “Working Life.” at.pw.org/SegueWangMyles

Mashing burlesque with the “bric-a-brac of girl culture,” the new digital anthology Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia.Books), coedited by Arielle Greenberg and Becca Klaver, compiles poetry by writers who embody a “feminist, critical, and campy ethos.” at.pw.org/AnthologistSO24

The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend this year’s volume of The Best American Poetry edited by Mary Jo Salter, and #PWWritingPrompts on returning, penny-pinching, and favorites. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Royal Society of Literature event, Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History, and Anne Michaels, author of Held, speak about their novels’ shared themes of history and memory in a conversation with Elif Shafak. at.pw.org/MessudAndMicha…

#PWFictionPrompt: Brainstorm a list of the strangest items you might find in a donation bin or out on the curb. Write a series of flash fiction stories about a few of these objects. #FromTheArchive: at.pw.org/OnePersonsTrash