Stories about poets & writers around the world, curated by Evan Smith Rakoff for P&W, late for Mother's Day to be sure. Waste not, want not. I'm going through drafts, this one for Mother's Day but not used (I went with the story about dictators with mommy issues because that's the kind of mood I was in.)
Radio Free Europe explains how an obscure nineteenth-century Kazakh poet, Abai, has become an unlikely symbol of the protests opposing Putin's return to power in Russia; Forbes features Jeff Mayersohn, the person who saved Harvard Bookstore from oblivion; the Guardian reports that the mysterious lover Federico García Lorca directed his sonnets has been revealed; and other news.
Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know.
Here are the day's stories. Enjoy: no telling when I'll get around to more:
Here are the day's stories. Enjoy: no telling when I'll get around to more:
