Terrance Hayes' How to Be Drawn and Heaven by Rowan Ricardo Phillips are among the ten titles on the poetry longlist.

Goldstein, who the National Endowment for the Humanities says “helps us understand the great human conflict between thought and feeling,” receives a National Humanities Medal, the nation's highest honor, presented by President Obama.

Karr tells the Wall Street Journal what she doesn’t include in her memoirs and which memory of hers was most difficult to put into words.

Wolff, whose work the National Endowment for the Arts declares “reflects the truths of our human experience,” receives a National Medal of Arts, the nation's highest honor, presented by President Obama.

The New York Times delves into the poet’s background studying medicine, writing Kanye West musicals, and realizing he didn’t want to be a preacher.

In the Guardian, Jeffery Renard Allen and others on the ways “black characters are still revolutionary.”

The New Yorker praises Washburn’s dramatic work as having  “a flair for the mythic” and “an almost ritualistic beauty.”

Callaghan’s Women Laughing Alone with Salad, a delectable comedy that explores the “complex recipe of desire and shame” found in modern romance, is part of this year’s Women's Voices Theater Festival in Washington, D.C. 

In this Tin House piece, one woman flirts with hypnosis in order to satisfy criminal urges.