Craft Capsule: On Reading Aloud
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: reading aloud.
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Article Archive
Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
House Hunting: Finding a Home for Your Characters
A fiction writer’s habit of imagining the lives of people who live in her favorite houses leads to serious research for her novel.
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Tracy K. Smith Named U.S. Poet Laureate
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has named Tracy K. Smith the next poet laureate of the United States.
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Video Games Redefine the Classics
In a growing trend, video games simulate the experience of being inside classic works of literature, from Thoreau’s Walden to Joyce’s Ulysses.
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Literary MagNet: Yuka Igarashi
Editor Yuka Igarashi highlights five journals that first published debut stories included in PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017, forthcoming in August from Catapult.
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We Mean Business: Twelve Agents Who Want to Read Your Work
Literary agents offer honest, unfiltered advice on how to find, approach, and secure the perfect agent for your work.
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Anatomy of Awards: July/August 2017
As part of a continuing series, we offer a breakdown of the numbers behind our Grants & Awards listings in our July/August 2017 issue.
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Seventy-Eight Agents to Follow on Twitter
Follow these agents on Twitter to gain insight into their tastes, author lists, and what kind of work they’re currently seeking.
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Whitman, Alabama
A video series explores ideas of America and identity by featuring people from across the state of Alabama reading stanzas from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”
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Small Press Points: Aunt Lute Books
Small Press Points highlights the innovation and can-do spirit of independent presses. This issue features the San Francisco–based feminist press Aunt Lute Books.
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The Written Image: Library of the Infinitesimally Small and Unimaginably Large
South African artist Barbara Wildenboer transforms old reference books into delicate sculptures that evoke their sources’ subject matter.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
Page One offers the first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Roxane Gay’s Hunger and Julia Fierro’s The Gypsy Moth Summer.
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First Fiction 2017
This year’s debut fiction roundup features emerging writers Zinzi Clemmons, Hala Alyan, Jess Arndt, Lisa Ko, and Diksha Basu.
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Worth the Wait: A Profile of Arundhati Roy
Readers have anticipated a new novel from the author of The God of Small Things for two full decades. Now, with the release of Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the wait is over.
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Publishing, Empowering Teen Writers
[Y]volve Publishing, a new press based in Chicago, has launched a chapbook series featuring poetry both written and edited by local teens.
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Q&A: Thomas’s App for Young Readers
A young developer discusses the genesis of her app, We Read Too, which offers an extensive database of multicultural books for young readers.
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Craft Capsule: On Endings
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: Is anything ever really over?
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In Technology We Trust: A Q&A With Victor LaValle
The author of four novels, most recently The Changeling, published by Spiegel & Grau in June, talks about the evolution of his new book, minimal dads, and writing a female character.
Patricia Lockwood’s Hart and Hind: An Answer Song
Novelist and singer-songwriter Ben Arthur finds inspiration in a chapter of poet Patricia Lockwood’s memoir, Priestdaddy.
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Craft Capsule: We Get to Make a Mess
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: the messy art.
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Let’s Play: Intuition, Imagination, and Black Creativity
A new exhibit at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland celebrates the idea of “fun as a revolutionary event” and explores AfroSurreal notions of intuition and imagination.
Craft Capsule: Run On
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: the energy of long sentences.
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Craft Capsule: Before Craft, or Hug Your Independent Bookseller
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: remembering the life-saving importance of reading.
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The Impossible Is Now Possible: Barbara Gowdy and Helen Phillips in Conversation
Barbara Gowdy, whose novel Little Sisters is published this month by Tin House Books, and novelist Helen Phillips discuss profound empathy, how literature can change women’s relationships to their bodies, and writing against the odds.
Craft Capsule: Memory, With Soundtrack
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: how art and pop culture influence memory.
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