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“Novel writing was my original love, and I still hope to do it. I just typically can finish writing a single poem faster than I can an entire narrative book!”

Leavings Just Source Indians on Vacation by Thomas King Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers by Aubrey Hanson Sarah Dowling Sonnet LAbbé If the past, as L. P. Hartley writes, is a foreign country, and if literary traditions and inherited forms are ways to consider the past, it follows that literary traditions—Shakespeare’s sonnets, say, or Sappho’s lyric—are themselves another country. We can try to map it, to learn how it felt t...

** Ae Hee Lee is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017) and  Dear bear, (Platypus Press, 2021). She holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has been published or is forthcoming at the New England Review, Narrative, Denver Quarterly, Southeast Review, and POETRY among others. She has also received scholarships and awards from the Academy o...

In the collection, Hayes acknowledges the poet Wanda Coleman (1946-2013) with “tremendous gratitude” for the term American Sonnet, and quotes an interview in which she interestingly describes how she would set the form as a writing assignment. “When asked for a definition she called poems jazz sonnets ‘with certain properties—progression, improvisation, mimicry, etc,” he adds (Coleman’s American Sonnet 35 can be heard here) and concludes: “I decided to have fun — to blow my so...

The National Book Foundation’s new digital outreach series features a 12-event presentation of winners, shortlistees, and finalists, including international literature and translation. In the main hall at Union Station in Washington, DC, during the holidays. Image – iStockphoto: Xackery Irving Smith: ‘Fueling Important Community Conversations’ The National Book Foundation—which produces the annual National Book Awards in November—is a year-round operation with educational outreach p...