Winner of the 2023 New American Poetry Prize, Megan Merchant’s new collection Hortensia, in winter will launch on October 1, 2024, and will be available for pre-order at Bookshop.org this summer. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports independent bookstores. ...
American poet, one of the finest of rural New England's 20th century pastoral(田园的)poets. Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times.Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874.He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry ...
A new annual international prize for poetry and medicine has recently been launched. The 2010 Hippocrates Prize, which is being organised by Professor Donald Singer from the University of Warwick's medical school and Michael Hulse, an international poet on the University's Writing Programme, will ...
🏆Winner of the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction Readexpert recommendations “Once you’ve read this book, you’re never going to forget it. It’s absolutely searing, deeply moving. And it’s an utterly compelling piece of storytelling. There have been quite a few novels recently that have...
Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems(2003); andThe History of Forgetting(2009). He collaborated with Stephen Dunn on a chapbook of poems,Winter at the Caspian Sea(1999). His poems have appeared in several volumes ofThe Best American Poetry. He teaches literature and writing at Williams ...
Lin’s book has the effect of birthing a whole new mode of poetics — one that relies not on either the revelatory moneyshot of anecdotal poetry or the thrusting, anti-absorptive diremptions of langpo, but on a profound, bath-like sense of boredom. If the American pragmatists found the...
Although the Signal winner did receive a nominal prize (of £100.00) and a certificate, the critical discussions about poetry were what mattered. The eloquent, long (10,000 word) essays on each year's work had a profound influence on poets, publishers—and on the people charged with ...
In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Evenabolitionistssaw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Dr. Anna Mae Duane’s bookEducated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change ...
Freedom from violence and lies; essays on Russian poetry and music Meacham has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Slate and The Los Angeles Times Book Review. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian to deliver keynote address at 2013 Annua...
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist Caroline Sanderson, Journalist Buy nowListen now The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science byJohn Tresch ✩ Finalist for theLos Angeles TimesBook Award for biography ...