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Congratulations To:APRIL 2013
 Josh Fox's long awaited Gasland 2 had its premier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival! Hearty Congratulations to George Saunders for being named to TIME Magazine's 2013 100 Most Influential People in the World!  Congratulations Ben Marcus and Major Jackson for winning Guggenheim Fellowship Awards! Congratulations to Katha Pollitt who was nominated for a 2013 National Magazine Award in "Columns and Commentary"!MARCH 2013 Ted Kooser's poetry set to music by a jazz composer and soprano! Read the Gish Jen Profile by the Boston Globe about her switch to nonfiction with her new book Tiger Writing! Wonderful review by the New York Times for Phillip Lopate's Portrait Inside My Head and To Show and To Tell!FEBRUARY 2013 Congratulations to Patricia Smith's "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah" for being a finalist for the 2013 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.JANUARY 2013Congratulations to Patricia Smith for receiving the Robert L. Fish Award for Best Debut Short Story from the Mystery Writers of America for her story "When They Are Done With Us." Congratulations to Richard Blanco for being named the 2013 Inaugural Poet! Check out this article on George Saunders in the New York Times. His new book Tenth of December comes out this week! Read Mark Doty's interview with the arts section of The Boston Globe.DECEMBER 2012November 2012
Read the Reuters interview with Da Chen about his new novel My Last Empress.  Congratulations to Jorie Graham for winning the prestigious Forward Poetry Prize in the UK for her collection PLACE.September 2012
August 2012
Congratulations to Marie Howe, newly named Poet Laureate of New York State.
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October 2011
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.
August 2011
July 2011
Congratulations to Sapphire on the release of The Kid and for the full feature article in USA Today.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is featured in the July/August 2011 edition of Poets & Writers Magazine.
June 2011
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.
April 2011Mark Doty has been awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
March 2011
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
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.
C.D. Wright's One With Others was reviewed in the Jan. 3 edition of The New Yorker.
December 2010
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
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Michael Dickman August 2010
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February 2010We mourn and honor the life of Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) why should we wander bone yards flesh is the coat we unfasten what need to linger among stones we have risen away from all that -Lucille Clifton, from Mercy Congratulations To:
January 2010
for the official release of his extraordinary new book, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment. December 2009
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!
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