Joy Harjo Named U.S. Poet Laureate
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Elliot Figman, executive director of Poets & Writers; Joy Harjo; and Susan Jackson
Photo credit: Richard Louissaint
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Yesterday, the Library of Congress
announced
that
Joy
Harjo
will be the next U.S. poet laureate. A member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, she is the first Native American to serve as laureate. Earlier this week, Poets & Writers awarded Harjo the 2019 Jackson Poetry Prize. “Poets & Writers has accompanied me on my whole journey to becoming a poet and a writer,” said Harjo.
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Spalding University’s School of Creative and Professional Writing
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New Markets for Your Work
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Mount Island
, which
“
is dedicated to supporting rural LGBTQ and POC writers and artists, publishes prose and poems that "buck the standard.
”
Juke Joint
strives to
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find unconventional Southern (and non-Southern) voices in poetry.”
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“Rule No. 10: Revise, revise, revise. I cannot stress this enough. Revision is when you do what you should have done the first time, but didn’t.”
Colson
Whitehead
, whose seventh novel,
The Nickel Boys
(Doubleday, 2019), is featured in
Page One
in the July/August issue of
Poets & Writers Magazine
,
reads
his 2012
New York Times
piece “How to Write” at the Muldoon’s Picnic variety show in New York City in 2015.
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Poets & Writers Receives Grant From the Amazon Literary Partnership
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We are happy
to announce
that Poets & Writers has received a grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership. The $20,000 grant will provide support to United States of Writing, an initiative Poets & Writers launched earlier this year to expand its core programming to better serve writers coast to coast, especially writers of color and others from historically marginalized groups.
“With our 50th Anniversary on the horizon in 2020, we are committed to empowering creative writers and strengthening literary communities in every corner of the United States,” said
Elliot Figman
, executive director of Poets & Writers. “We are grateful to the Amazon Literary Partnership for supporting this bold vision.”
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Heidi Diehl Recommends...
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Fiction writer
Heidi
Diehl
recommends
a book with a structure that inspires her: “When I get stuck on the question of what’s happening in a piece of fiction, when my words feel stilted or dull, I like to read a bit of Lyn Hejinian’s
My Life
(Burning Deck, 1980).”
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Check out our
Classifieds
to find current calls for submissions, editorial services, rentals for a DIY retreat, and more. Here are a couple listings of note:
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www.ikescanyon.com
.
THE MEDICAL LITERARY MESSENGER seeks thought-provoking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art related to medicine, illness, and the body. Our online submissions are free and are accepted on a rolling basis. You can follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
@medlitmessenger
and visit us at
https://med-lit.vcu.edu
.
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