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april-5-2021 APRIL 5, 2021 – The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected its 23rd class of Fellows: 15 talented academics, literary artists, and independent scholars. The Fellows were selected from a pool of 506 applicants from 48 countries. The class of 2021 includes: Subscribe Poet Michael Prior; Independent scholars Rich Benjamin, Lewis Hyde, and Avi Steinberg. "The past year has come with astounding challenges. In this renewed state of recovery and careful reconnection, I am grateful to be welcoming our new class of Fellows an...

Tel: +44 (0)1937 546546 Full Price: £7.50 Member: Free One of our leading historians explores the rich and dramatic story of the oldest living civilisation on earth. This is an online event hosted by Unique Media. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. China’s 4000-year history is still surprisingly little known in the wider world, but it is one of intense drama, fabulous creativity and deep humanity �...

IOWA CITY - The International Writing Program (IWP) invites U.S. students ages 15-22 from Iowa and across the country to apply to their virtual summer programs, hosted with major support from the University of Iowa, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

—a parent’s pain— . To read your collection is to visit, as you put it, “where pain lives.”   In “Scarf,” the speaker writes, “ He wishes grief were a cloth he could take off.” Why is poetry the most appropriate means for you to contemplate grief?  Saddiq Dzukogi: Thank you so much for your generous words about the collection. I find it immensely difficult to talk about the book, but I guess I am at that stage where it becomes necessary since the book’s release date is around the corner.  Poetry has always been a tool for me to make sense of my body and the various emo...

by Lance Cleland Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Arab/Muslim-American fiction and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novel, You Exist Too Much, which was selected as a most anticipated book for 2020 by  O, The Oprah Magazine, Good Morning America, Vogue, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar. Her stories and essays have appeared in publications including  The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, BuzzFeed, VICE, Guernica, Literary Hub and NPR. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Arab Women/Migra...