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Louise Glück, the witty, candid and uncompromising former U.S. poet laureate who won the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, has died at age 80.

Each year, nearly 200 undergraduate writers and poets throughout North America, and sometimes beyond, come to Weber State University to present their work and learn from some of the most important writers in contemporary literature.

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The FSG Poetry Anthology, which pubbed in November, looks back at the press’s formidable poetry list.

A conversation with the poet and Nobel laureate about her career, teaching, her next book, and more.

A conversation with the poet and Nobel laureate about her career, teaching, her next book, and more.

May 10, 2021 by Aimee Minbiole Honorary degrees will also go to scholars in the arts, education, and sciences. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed 81 will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouths 2021 commencement. (Photo by Tony Rinaldo) PreviousNext Annette Gordon-Reed 81, a law scholar, MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouths 2021 commencement in Memori...

Event Description One of the good reasons the year 2020 will go down in history is that for the first time an American poet was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. While Louise Glück’s work is well known in poetry circles, it is as yet little known by the American public. “Louise Glück is not only engaged by the errancies and shifting conditions of life,” according to the Nobel’s statement, “she is also a poet of radical change and rebi...

I thought for sure the Monstress series by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda was going to be the best thing I read this year, but something I read in the last couple of weeks of 2020 just barely edged out the spot. The Epic Crush of Genie Lo struck a chord in me, not only for its humor, but also because the teenagers actually act and sound like teenagers. It’s not often that I find a book that I feel gives an authentic experience (whether it’s a teenage one or something else, like a southern ...