Poets & Writers
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Poets & Writers is the nation's largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers. Our mission is to foster the professional development of poets and writers, to promote communication throughout the literary community, and to help create an environment in which literature can be appreciated by the widest possible public. The magazine publishes essays on the literary life, profiles of..
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The new Inside Literary Prize represents an opportunity to connect and honor the perspectives of incarcerated individuals by inviting hundreds of such readers to discuss and select a winner from a slate of National Book Award finalists ..read more
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As AI makes it easier for people to generate text, literary editors are wrestling with how to weed out submissions by authors trying to pass off AI work as their own from those that use the technology in a more ethical way ..read more
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A new exhibit opening in June at the National Museum of the American Indian considers the important role that visual and material storytelling plays in chronicling the histories of Great Plains Native nations ..read more
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One of the greatest offenses a writer can commit is to steal others’ work and present it as their own. Members of the literary community discuss the negative impact of a serial plagiarist and potential protections against further theft. ..read more
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An introduction to three new anthologies, including Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection ..read more
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The first Latinx president and executive director of the Academy of American Poets reflects on his start at the nonprofit and his vision for the organization’s future ..read more
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A poet explores the struggle to balance his roles as writer, educator, and activist during the war in Gaza and the refusal of silence during a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of civilians ..read more
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, a debut poetry collection, introduces some of the journals that offered a home for her work, including ..read more
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offers some perspective on whether a first person narrator can enhance or inhibit a story ..read more
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magazine offers a preview of a museum exhibition on the life of Franz Kafka, who died in 1924. Marking the centennial of the author’s death, “Kafka: Making of an Icon” will open in May at the Weston Library of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and travel to the Morgan Library in New York, where it will run from November 22 through April 13, 2025 ..read more