Congratulations To:
April 2012
Forrest Gander and Diane Ackerman were Pulitzer Prize finalists in the Poetry and General Nonfiction categories, respectively.
"If you have room in your wallet for one book of short stories this year, make it Etgar Keret's Suddenly, a Knock on the Door," says the LA Times. We agree.
Jaimy Gordon's Lord of Misrule has been longlisted for the Orange Prize. Shortlist announcement April 17.
Forrest Gander's Spectacle & Pigsty is a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award.
March 2012
Katja Esson's Ferry Tales will air on the Documentary Channel, March 31 at 10 PM, for Women's History Month. Not to be missed!
Kevin Young's
The Grey Album is the
lead review in the NY Times.
Philip Levine's Q&A with Poets & Writers Magazine is online.
Congratulations Nick! Being Flynn, starring Robert DeNiro and Paul Dano, is in theaters.
February 2012
Pam Houston's Contents May Have Shifted was recently reviewed in the SF Chronicle.
Dana Spiotta,
Forrest Gander, and
Diane Ackerman were nominated for the
National Book Critics Circle Award.
Natasha Trethewey has been appointed Poet Laureate to the state of Mississippi.
Poetry of Resilience is nominated for prestigious Cinema and Peace Award for Most Valuable Documentary of the Year at the Berlin Film Festival.
January 2012
Diane Ackerman on one of life's most interesting creatures in the New York Times.
Honor Moore's poem "Song" has been selected for the Best American Poetry 2012.
Dominique Browning has an interesting article in the New York Times.
British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy wins the prestigious Costa Award for Poetry, for her book The Bees.
Jill Bialosky's History of a Suicide is a Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 at Entertainment Weekly.
December 2011
Patricia Smith's work was featured in both Best American Poetry and Best American Essays 2011.
Kwame Dawes has given a wonderful interview to Guernica Magazine.
Mat Johnson's novel Pym made the best of 2011 lists of Salon, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and the Houston Chronicle.
Pam Houston has been interviewed in anticipation of Contents May Have Shifted
Being Flynn, based on Nick Flynn's memoir, and starring Paul Dano and Robert DeNiro, is due for release March 2.
Bonnie Jo Campbell's book Once Upon a River has been chosen by NPR as one of five fiction pics for 2011.
Ben Percy has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts.
Philip Schultz speaks with WNYC about his struggles with dyslexia.
November 2011
Diane Ackerman's article, Your Begonia is Texting You, appears in the NYT.
Marie Howe was interviewed by NPR's Terry Gross, on Fresh Air
Check out Tony Hoagland's article about Robert Bly in the September American Poetry Review.
October 2011
Katja Esson's Poetry of Resilience wins Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival!
A new profile of Ben Percy and his sister posted on Salon.
September 2011
Josh Fox wins an
Emmy for Outstanding Direction for Nonfiction Programming for his film
Gasland.
Noah Hutton's & Katja Esson's new films featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.
Congratulations to Mat Johnson for receiving the Dos Passos Prize for Literature.
Philip Schultz's op-ed piece about My Dyslexia featured in the New York Times.
C.D. Wright has been awarded the 2011 Lenore Marshall Award for the year's most outstanding book of poetry, One With Others.
Philip Levine has been named the eighteenth US Poet Laureate for 2011-2012!
August 2011
Katja Esson's film Poetry of Resilience will premier at the Oscar-qualifying festival DocuWeeks in LA August 19. Read Village Voice article.
Brian Turner's interview with NPR about his recent return to Baghdad and his article in the July issue of National Geographic.
July 2011
Phillip Schultz's My Dyslexia advanced review in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Congratulations to Sapphire on the release of The Kid and for the full feature article in USA Today.
Brian Turner's article "Baghdad After the Storm" is featured in the July edition of National Geographic.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is featured in the July/August 2011 edition of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Thomas Sayers Ellis' "Seeing Seen" photographs are featured in the July/August issue of Poetry Magazine.
June 2011
Bonnie Jo Campbell's Once Upon a River has been named a Best Summer Read on NPR as well as one of the 10 Must-Read Summer Books by Newsweek.
Sapphire's The Kid has been named a Best Summer Read on NPR.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Lucky Fish won the Gold Independent Publisher Book Award for Poetry.
Dominique Browning was interviewed by Talking Writing.
Danzy Senna's You Are Free: Stories has been reviewed by The New York Times.
May 2011
Bob Hicok's poem "Cultural Studies" appears in the May 2, 2011 edition of The New Yorker.
Adam Zagajewski's "In Valleys" appears in the May 2, 2011 edition of The New Yorker.
Francine Prose's book My New American Life has been released by HarperCollins.
Diane Ackerman's One Hundred Names for Love NYT Book Review.
Claudia Emerson has been awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.
Paul Guest has been awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.
April 2011
Mark Doty has been awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
Charles Simic is the 2011 recipient of The Poetry Society of American's highest award, the Frost Medal, presented annually for "lifetime achievement in poetry."
March 2011
Donald Hall has been awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama for his extensive contributions to American poetry.
Congratulations to C.D. Wright, winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for her book One With Others.
Jorie Graham's poem "CAGNES-SUR-MER 1950" is featured in the March 14, 2011 edition of The New Yorker.
Charles Simic has won the 2011 Vilcek Prize in Literature.
Terrance Hayes' Lighthead and C.D. Wright's One With Others are finalists for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.
February 2011
Josh Fox's GASLAND was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Thomas Sayers Ellis' Skin, INC. was reviewed in the January 3 edition of The Nation.
Chase Twichell won the 2011 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award!
January 2011
Jericho Brown received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.
Major Jackson's Holding Company was nominated for an NAACP award in Poetry.
Mark Doty was elected as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Galway Kinnell is featured on the cover of the Jan/Feb edition of APR.
C.D. Wright's One With Others was reviewed in the Jan. 3 edition of The New Yorker.
December 2010
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris was named a Reviewer's favorite from 2010 in The New Yorker.
Charles Simic's Master of Disguises and C.K. Williams' Wait were named two of The Great Poetry Collections of 2010 by The New Yorker's poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.
Terrance Hayes' Lighthead has won the 2010 National Book Award in Poetry.
Debra Winger was featured in the November 5 issue of The New York Times.
Francine Prose received the Washington University International Humanities Medal.
November 2010
Terrance Hayes' Lighthead and C.D. Wright's One With Others are finalists for the 2010 National Book Awards in Poetry.
Simon Armitage, Robin Robertson, and Brian Turner have been shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Simon Armitage is also the Winner of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for "The Present".
October 2010
Patricia Smith
Winner of the 2010 Rattle Poetry Prize for "Tavern. Tavern. Church. Shuttered Tavern."!
Josh Fox
Winner of the LennonOno Peace Prize for his documentary film GASLAND!
Michael Dickman
Winner of the Laughilin Award for outstanding 2nd collection, for Flies (2011)!
August 2010
Major Jackson
Profiled in the current issue of Poets & Writers for Holding Company!
March 2010
Peter Cole
He has won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Literature!
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and Brenda Hillman: finalists for the LA Times Book Award for Poetry!
Patricia Smith
Her poem "Motown Crown" has a double Pushcart nomination!
Danzy Senna
Featured on the cover of this month's Poets & Writers Magazine! Check out the great interview with her.
February 2010
We mourn and honor the life of Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)
why should we wander bone yards
draped in linen
flesh is the coat we unfasten
and throw off
what need to linger among stones
and monuments
we have risen away from all that
wrapped in understanding
-Lucille Clifton, from Mercy
Congratulations To:
Oren Moverman
His film THE MESSENGER has just been nominated for two major
Academy Awards! Oren Moverman for Best Screenplay and Woody Harrelson for Best Supporting Actor!
Nick Flynn
for the official release of his extraordinary new book, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment.
December 2009
Valzhyna Mort
Recipient of a 2009 Lannan Literary Fellowship!
Brian Turner has been selected as one of 50 United States Artists Fellows for 2009!
Matthew Dickman: "All-American Poem" received the 2009 Oregon Book Award for Poetry from Portland Literary Arts!
Hillary Jordan: "Mudbound" has been long-listed for the Impac Dublin Award!
Peter Trachtenberg: "Book of Calamities" has won the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award!
