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Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
Nine More New Memoirs
by Staff
September/October 2016
In his conversation with William Giraldi, whose memoir, The Hero's Body, was published in August by Liveright, Sven Birkerts talks about memoir as a kind of mirror.
Literary MagNet
by Dana Isokawa
September/October 2016
Literary MagNet highlights an author alongside the journals that have published that author’s work. This issue’s MagNet features fiction writer Matt Bell, who takes us through five journals that first published pieces appearing in his latest collection, A Tree or a Person or a Wall.
The Savvy Self-Publisher: Jonathan R. Miller’s The Two Levels
by Debra W. Englander
September/October 2016
In a continuing series, Deborah W. Englander consults an author and events manager, as well as a CEO of a book-marketing firm, to provide self-published author Jonathan R. Miller valuable book-industry advice on his novel The Two Levels.
Reviewers & Critics: Steph Burt
by Michael Taeckens
September/October 2016
Steph Burt, acclaimed critic, poet, and Harvard professor, talks about their path to becoming a poetry critic, working as both a poet and a critic, and how the internet has greatly expanded the conversations surrounding poetry and poetics.
Q&A: Sherrod Celebrates Amistad Press
by Dana Isokawa
September/October 2016
Tracy Sherrod, current editorial director of Amistad Press, discusses how the publisher of multicultural voices has changed over its thirty-year history, as well as the challenges it faces today.
A New Center for Black Poetics
by Tara Jayakar
September/October 2016
At the University of Pittsburgh, poets Dawn Lundy Martin, Terrance Hayes, and Yona Harvey recently established the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics—a creative think tank dedicated to studying, archiving, and promoting the work of African American poets.
BinderCon Grows Into Feminist Force
by Sarah M. Seltzer
September/October 2016
Now in its second year, the BinderCon professional development conference, held biannually in New York and Los Angeles, works to champion and connect women and gender nonconforming writers.
Inspiring Writers in Western New York
by Maya C. Popa
September/October 2016
Celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year, the Just Buffalo Literary Center offers workshops, youth programs, events, an international authors series, and an unmatched literary community in western New York.
Anatomy of Awards: September/October 2016
by Staff
September/October 2016
As part of a continuing series, we offer a breakdown of the numbers behind our Grants & Awards listings.
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
by Staff
September/October 2016
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Jonathan Safran Foer’s Here I Am and Monica Youn’s Blackacre, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.