The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and
Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her ninth collection,
Ledger, is forthcoming from Knopf in March 2020. She has edited and cotranslated books with Mariko Aratani and Robert Bly. Hirshfield’s honors include the Poetry Center Book Award, the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Literature, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award, and the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has been selected for seven editions of
ONLINE: Poetry of the Moment
Dec 17, 2020 12:00 PM
UW professors and poets Cherene Sherrard and Amaud Jamaul Johnson.
UW-Madison poet and professor Amaud Jamaul Johnson and UW-Madison professor Cherene Sherrard will read from their works, which address such topics as Black identity and the brutal realities of being Black in the U.S. Johnson released his latest poetry collection,
Imperial Liquor, this year. But the program is as much discussion as a reading of prior work. Moderated by Ann Shaffer (MA â90) the evening will also include a Q&A session.
press release: At a time when the nation grapples with long-standing racial injustices and police brutality, two UW professors â who are also poets, a married couple, and featured in the Winter 2020 issue of
Launched in 1956,
Colorado Review is a triquarterly literary journal published at Colorado State University. Each approximately 200-page issue features short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and poetry. Work first published in Colorado Review has been reprinted or noted in Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, Best New American Voices, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best Travel Writing, Best Food Writing, and Pushcart Prize.
WE ARE HONORED to present to you the very first
Massachusetts Review issue focused on Native American writing. We are thankful to Associate Editor N. C. Christopher Couch and the rest of the MR team for dreaming up this issue and for asking us to be guest editors, and we are especially thankful to the writers and artists whose work we’ve chosen for this special issue. Their words and images are a gift.
This issue, as it was first imagined, was set to coincide with and push back against Massachusetts’s planned celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the
Kenyon Review Reading Series 2020-21
All events sponsored in whole or in part by the
Kenyon Review, the Kenyon College English Department, GLCA New Writers Award, Ohio Arts Council, and the
KR Associates Program.
All of this year’s Kenyon Review Reading Series events are VIRTUAL. See below for links to our scheduled events, and please visit this page again soon as we are building a rich lineup for this fall. You can purchase books written by our virtual reading series authors in our KR Bookshop. We hope you’ll join us.
Although these readings are free and open to the public, we hope you will consider making a donation. With your support, we’ll continue to provide programming that celebrates the most exciting voices in literature from ever more diverse, ever more talented communities of authors.