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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • January 12, 2021
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Joy of Play: Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces (10th Anniversary Ed.) by David Biespiel

  • Wesley Sexton
  • March 27, 2020
Biespiel offers a number of best practices—not just for writing poems, but for living a creative life.
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What Poets and Writers Want

  • Kirstin Allio
  • August 25, 2016
The staff at Poets & Writers put out a call to writers—“some of our most thoughtful and articulate citizens”—to share their perspectives on important issues for the next US president.…
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Sinful Bookmarks and Western Prejudice

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 26, 2013
What is it like, in post-Tahrir Cairo, to run a bookstore or a publishing house? What is it like to be a reader or a writer? For Poets & Writers, Stephen…
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Better Living through Storytelling

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 16, 2013
One of the hardest parts of developing artificial intelligence, writes Frank Bures for Poets & Writers, is trying to teach computers causality: how and why one thing follows from another. Humans…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Bruce Lee’s Advice to Poets

  • David Biespiel
  • November 28, 2012
Who isn’t a devotee of advice from writers about writing? One of my favorite books in this guilty-pleasure genre to come out lately is Dennis O’Driscoll’s collection of witticisms and…
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Questionable Ranking Systems for MFA Programs

  • Sam Riley
  • September 13, 2011
Poets & Writers recently ranked the country’s MFA programs, and as rankings often do, it is being received with some hostility. Their hierarchy of MFA programs is based on the…
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The (Optimisitic) State of the Book Review

  • Sam Riley
  • August 25, 2011
Book reviews sections in newspapers and magazines began shrinking a couple years ago, or being folded into other sections, even disappearing altogether. In 2007, a band of culturally dedicated authors…
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In Praise of the Indie Bookseller

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • January 6, 2010
Poets & Writers has a new series, Inside Indie Bookstores, by Jeremiah Chamberlin, associate editor of Fiction Writers Review. Each month, according to Chamberlin, the series will feature an interview…
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The MFA Rankings Wars

  • Brian Spears
  • October 31, 2009
Last week in my Poetic Lives Online column, I wrote a little about the immediate reaction to the Poets & Writers MFA program rankings. Well, it’s blown up a bit…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • October 24, 2009
Can you tell the difference between E. E. Cummings and a YouTube commenter? (It’s really not as hard as it looks.) Caroline Guinzio has been guest blogging at Unstressed this…
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