A remembrance of his life and the “hushed, spare, often fragmented language” of his poetry in The New York Times.

The playwright received the 2015 PEN America / Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for work exhibiting “structural daring, linguistic mischief, and commanding wit.”

Wayne’s commentary in The New York Times on the evolution of the “yuppie” from 1980s young-urban-professional to millennial hipster. 

Sante, Smith, and Michael Ondaatje discussed memoir and memory at the PEN World Voices Festival. Read excerpts from the discussion in The Guardian. 

Doty discusses the legacy of his early poetry and the influences of his latest collection, Deep Lane. 

Orlandermith’s elegiac solo performance on family, trauma, and coming of age is full of “spellbinding immediacy.” 

Chiasson writes on the bounding imagination, spontaneity, and formal inventiveness of Hayes’s latest collection in The New Yorker. 

Darryl Pinckney on Smith’s story of family, loss, and a writer’s coming of age.

The author of the story collection Monstress was awarded the prestigious fellowship to live and write in Rome from the American Academy in Rome. 

The author on the personal and collective grief caused by the massive destruction.