Vuong talks in-depth about his identity as a “child of war” and why poetry is the act of “singing solitude, but singing it to each other.”

Jackson discusses the lack of literature in prison and writing for “a younger version of myself.”

As part of a series on “LGBTQ artists shaping the course of American theatre,” Playbill talks to McCraney about his shyness outside of performing and why he believes that “all art remembers our humanity.”

The New York Times praises LaValle’s honest exploration of H. P. Lovecraft’s racism and xenophobia, and proclaims “the emotions LaValle evokes are well beyond what Lovecraft, even at his best, was capable of.”

In a prose poem for Orion Magazine, Thon imagines Chernobyl when it was home to feral roses and wild animals. 

Chicago Review of Books declares Girmay’s exploration of African diaspora “haunting, blistering, and vital.”

Lucas Hnath and Rajiv Joseph are winners of the 2016 Obie Awards. Hnath is a winner in the Playwriting category and Joseph received an Obie for Best New Play for his work Guards at the Taj.

In Narrative magazine, a story by Novakovich features a teenage girl, a Syrian refugee, and one lost cat.

Awarded by Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, the Prize is presented each year to a poet of “special merit” as selected by the faculty of the Creative Writing Porgram. Tracy K. Smith, Director of the Program in Creative Writing, noted that “Eduardo C. Corral is a poet of astonishing craft and huge consciousness.”

Morgan reveals which living writers she most admires and why she believes the reader has the right to “both read and misread.”