Jericho Brown wins the 2017 Lyric Award
Brown received the award, given by the Poetry Society for a lyric poem on any subject, for his poem “As a Human Being.”
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Brown received the award, given by the Poetry Society for a lyric poem on any subject, for his poem “As a Human Being.”
Clare Barron, Jen Beagin, Francisco Cantú, Clarence Coo, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Lisa Halliday, James Ijames, Tony Tulathimutte, Simone White, and Phillip B. Williams are recipients of 2017 Whiting Awards for their wildly inventive, insightful, and heartfelt work in drama, nonfiction, poetry, and fiction!
The Literary Show Project writes that Batuman’s novel about a Turkish-American freshman at Harvard is “probably the best campus novel since Zadie Smith’s On Beauty,” praising Batuman’s depiction of youth.
In an excerpt from recent collection Reality Radio, Alarcón shares how a story lead in a boxing ring inspired the creation of Radio Ambulante, the Spanish-language narrative podcast that tells stories of Spanish speakers across the Americas.
Signature Reads praises Passarello’s “careful detective work” in her latest collection of essays, writing that her revelations about animal life ultimately teach readers lessons about humanity.
On The Creative Independent, Long Soldier discusses how the process of writing can become an act of prayer, explaining, “I’m always listening and collecting language.”
In The Florida Review, a love poem composed by Major Jackson accompanies by one written by his partner. In his work, “The View from Up Here,” Jackson observes, “Night gently offers its diamonds/ which we stash in silent mumblings.”
In a new poem for Question of Will, Diggs declares, “my lineage be a slave trade/ be a fur trade be a horse trade be a dendê trade be a ivory trade be a 1492/ misdirection."
The Review praises Vuong’s depictions of the lasting effects of the Vietnam War, writing that Vuong is “a young poet already able to make phrases dance” and dubbing the collection “unputdownable.”
The Chicago review writes that Mansour’s latest, about a photographer in the Middle East, teaches viewers “no one can escape their own humanity.”