I love Marian Jones’s journalism. Especially her oral history of the Combahee River Collective and her insightful interview with @rdgkelley. So I was overjoyed to speak with her for @nationmag All Audre. Everywhere.💜🙏🏽💜 thenation.com/article/cultur…

Congratulations to Whiting winner Charif Shanahan: TRACE EVIDENCE is a finalist for the ✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black Writers Legacy Award in Poetry!

I loved this conversation. 💜🙏🏽💜. Thank you Lauren!!!💜💜💜

In this six-week, online workshop with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (El Norte Recuerda), we’ll use Donna Haraway's theory of sympoiesis, or "worlding with", to explore and write works that collaborate with the land as record, as memory and as document. brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/sym…

“Gumbs’s book revels in Lorde’s lush multiplicity, moving through the ebbs and flows of her life with both precision and lyricism and expanding the limits of what a biography can be and hold and feel like.” theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

.@graywolfpress is hiring a Development Director! Candidates must be located in the Twin Cities or NYC. Apply here by Sep 20: buff.ly/3z0GYnP

The 2024-25 Shapiro Speaker series, "The Art of Editing," has a fantastic lineup, featuring Whiting grantees Kaitlyn Greenidge and Meghan O'Rourke! Find out more about the series here: buff.ly/3MxKlpf

Whiting grantee Bellevue Literary Review is accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for their 2025 theme issue! Submissions should explore how health and healing transcend and interconnect species, and what this can teach us about being human. More info here: buff.ly/3yYbOxs

FYI: The Steinbeck Fellowship is open for applications. Past fellows include R.O. Kwon, Gabriela Garcia, Meron Hadero, Rose Himber Howse, Vanessa Hua, Shruti Swamy, Francisco Gonzalez, and Uche Okonkwo. sjsu.edu/steinbeck/awar…

Teachers, join Whiting grantee WordsWithoutBorders Campus and Re-Imagining Migration for a 9/12 webinar on teaching underrepresented narratives through the lens of Marco Avilés’s powerful essay “I Am Not Your Cholo.” Register here: buff.ly/3STo8Wr

starred review in Booklist ooooo babey booklistonline.com/Rejection-/pid…

Delighted to be in conversation with brilliant El Norte Recuerda about her singular essay collection on 9/30! Can't resist quoting Marquez: "We have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable..." ✨🔮

starred review in Kirkus, all aboard the trade train toot toot kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/t…

"It is important—and imperative—to tackle my life in fiction." - Whiting winner Yiyun Li, in New Yorker Fiction buff.ly/4e1f6Pn

The fall lineup for Literary Arts at Brown University looks fantastic -- and features Whiting winners Carribean Fragoza, Ladan, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi! Don't miss this incredible series.

One country you America you know You know what one means one means no more jobs Will go to immigrants one means our troops will Clean up the border unified that’s one Read a new poem by Whiting winner Shane McCrae in berlin lit buff.ly/3XdgDec

a haphazard scoop, a measure of care into hot water, not quite cutting a boil. fingers as soft pincers replacing the lid of a porcelain teapot with a light ting. Read a new poem by Whiting winner Ina Darling, via Where Meadows buff.ly/4eebzx9

The next Brooklyn Poets Reading Series on Friday, Sept 20 features Whiting winner Diannely Antigua, Megan Pinto, and Hala Alyan! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. buff.ly/3XkD01l

.The Waywiser Press is now accepting submissions for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, judged by Whiting winner Shane McCrae and open to poets who have published no more than one previous collection. Submit by Dec. 1: buff.ly/3ZhQmhr

.Graywolf Press will hold an open submission period for contemporary poetry in translation from 11/11 to 11/15. Complete details and instructions here: buff.ly/48fI0rM