Major independent bookstores across the country—including McNally Jackson, Busboys and Poets, Powell’s, Tattered Cover, and Posman’s—have seen similar mass layoffs during the past week. While the range of inquiries has been broad, common themes have emerged over time. (Photo credit: Nancy Nichols), A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Ghost Of, which was selected for publication by Terrance Hayes in the Omnidawn Open Contest. We asked authors, booksellers, publishers, editors, and others to share the places they go to connect with writers of the past, to the bars and cafés where today’s authors give readings, and to those sites that are most inspiring for writing. As more and more schools close down across the country, many authors for young readers are offering online readings and drawing tutorials. They are known for their work encompassing video installation, performance and publishing that interrogates debility, dissent, labour and the queer body. The Believer Festival 2020 is off. Read three decades of essays, articles, interviews, profiles, and other select content from Poets & Writers Magazine. The Academy of American Poets seeks the public’s participation for its “Shelter in Poems” initiative. We were so keen to join with you for an extraordinary experience, including the debut of Las Vegas' Moth StorySLAM; the premiere of a site-specific piece at Red Rock Canyon by Annie-B Parson and Big Dance Theater; and performances by brilliant writers, musicians, and artists from Las Vegas and around the world. He is the director of the Written Arts program at Bard College. The Magazine. On the surface, it is a book about the weather—but it is also about the art world, different types of apocalypses, Tom of Finland, cults, and sex. Deepening those connections, pursuing them as we can—that's health, too. PO Box 330578 She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Find the perfect audience for your poems, stories, essays, and reviews by researching over one thousand literary magazines. Nominations for the 2020 Believer Book Awards are open. Whether you are looking to meet up with fellow writers, agents, and editors, or trying to find the perfect environment to fuel your writing practice, the Conferences & Residencies is the essential resource for information about well over three hundred writing conferences, writers residencies, and literary festivals around the world. (Photo credit: Susan Aurinko), A lifelong Texan, Keaton Patterson is the lead buyer for Brazos Bookstore in Houston. He’s also a high school English teacher and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Randy earned his BA in English Literature from CU-Boulder and his Ed.M. July 2020 April May 2020. We say this with broken hearts. A Microinterview with Niela Orr and Ismail Muhammad writers. September 16-18: Longlists Announced. The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2020. His articles and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Jane, and Rolling Stone. Poet and memoirist Molly Brodak has died; BookExpo, UnBound, and BookCon are postponed; Poets & Writers Magazine compiles resources for writers in the time of coronavirus; and other stories. Learn more about this program, our special events, projects, and supporters, and how to contact us. (Photo credit: Anton Kisselgoff), Chair – Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Bard College. Nikky Finney in Conversation with Jericho Brown writers . It was a finalist for the Reading the West Book Award. (Photo credit: Mary Lou Prince), Heather Cleary is a writer and translator from the Spanish whose work has been longlisted or shortlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the Best Translated Book Award, and the National Translation Award.