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05/31/2026

Wonderful

05/15/2026

Do your Heart a favor, a BIG favor, and listen to Patricia Smith

Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully revi...

05/01/2026

02/25/2026

https://cpj.org/special-reports/record-129-press-members-killed-in-2025-israel-responsible-for-2-of-3-of-deaths/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwY2xjawQMCepleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJrUjRzNmkwZ3NYcTZTUVJic3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlzvfL2p17pdO2hZi087P2RubmFzPtt3lBS0kgjGByjxgTk4aYr8lUdqlYzD_aem_cDQ9umCdX--vzVuJJIRU_w

Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all journalist and media worker killings in 2025, driving t...

02/17/2026

From the Capitol steps to newsrooms across Wyoming, Equality Day continues to resonate. 🌈

LGBTQ+ Wyomingites and allies gathered to remind leaders that everyone deserves dignity and equal treatment. We’re grateful to see that message receiving more media coverage.

Read more:
https://www.yourwyominglink.com/news/local/lgbtq-community-gathers-at-the-wyoming-state-capitol-for-equality-day/article_992b0dfe-9be1-4129-8148-5510f0f8854b.html

01/22/2026

01/14/2026

01/05/2026

This will be a good one! Arthur and Mandana both wonderful!

Join us on Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 7 pm ET/4 pm PT for a special conversation about poetry in translation with Arthur Sze, the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States, led by Mandana Chaffa, Vice President of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize.

Arthur Sze is the twenty-fifth Poet Laureate of the United States and a celebrated editor and translator. He has authored twelve collections of poetry, most recently Into the Hush (2025); The Glass Constellation (2021), winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Prize; and Sight Lines (2019), recipient of the National Book Award. Further honors include the Bollingen Prize for Lifetime Achievement for American Poetry, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Award. Sze lives with his wife, the poet Carol Moldaw, in Santa Fe, where he served as the city’s first poet laureate.

On Zoom, free with pre-registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lyoImaPBQv-TsZ5IrL5XMQ

12/28/2025

"What the Living Do When Ceasefire is Announced."
Poem by
Art: _Perseverance_ by

https://baladimagazine.com/what-the-living-do-when-ceasefire-is-announced/