Two collections that deal with the war in Gaza are competing at the National Book Awards. The poets discuss poetry's power in times of great suffering and what the awards mean for Palestinian voices.

A total of 1,917 books were submitted for the National Book Awards, which honors fiction, nonfiction, young people's literature, poetry and translated literature Kimberlee Speakman is a digital ...

Keith Waldrop, a prominent avant-garde poet, small press publisher and translator who won the National Book Award in 2009 with “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy,” an inventive collection of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Rita Dove has a sharp, simple goal in response to receiving a National Book Award for lifetime achievement: “I want it to be a milestone, not a tombstone.

National Book Award finalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove will be honored with the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. And Paul ...

Amazon The final National Book Critics Circle Awards genre longlist has arrived. On Dec. 19, the organization announced their sixth award longlist, for the poetry genre. From Dec. 16 to Dec. 19 ...

Former San Antonio Poet Laureate Octavio Quintanilla’s “The Book of Wounded Sparrows” made the longlist for the 2024 National Book Awards for Poetry but it is not among the finalists ...

A Cuban-Peruvian poet from New Mexico has won the Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award. Sara Daniele Rivera will receive $5,000, a six-week residency at an artist community in the Umbria ...

SCOTTVILLE — West Shore Community College is inviting the public to a poetry reading and book signing with local award-winning poet Paul Garland. The event is slated for noon to 1:30 p.m. April ...

His poetry collection The Beauty of the Weapons was shortlisted for a Governor General's Award in 1982 and his nonfiction book A Story as Sharp as a Knife was shortlisted for a Governor ...