The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read, a partnership with Arts Midwest, broadens our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. Showcasing a diverse range of contemporary titles that reflect many different voices and perspectives, the NEA Big Read …
Delve into the works of the poet who gave voice to the River Dart and reinvented Homer at the spring National Poetry Library Book Club. From her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, in 1996, Alice Oswald has engaged with the natural world and ecology, informed by her …
#twitterPoetryClub meets on Twitter, on alternating Monday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. EST. Their formula is pretty simple: members share beloved or interesting poems by posting the poet's name, hashtagging "TwitterPoetryClub" and including an image of the poem and/or a link to the full text. Once a poem …
Established in memory of poet Bronwen Wallace, this award now presents two awards for short fiction and poetry every year, effective 2020. As Ms. Wallace’s first book was not published until she was 35, this annual award is given to a writer below the age of 35 who has yet …
Ilya Kaminsky reads from Deaf Republic and Sawako Nakayasu reads from The Ants in Tishman Lecture Hall at Bennington College. Learn more here.