September/October 2026

Installations, workshops, and other initiatives celebrate literature in national parks, allowing nature and poetry to illuminate each other.

The Human Authored Certification Mark seeks to restore trust between readers and writers.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Perfect Italian by Kiki Petrosino and Triage by Clauda Rankine.

A new imprint is redefining classic literature, reissuing books that were previously overlooked.

New press Lost Kite Editions, launched earlier this year in Minneapolis, has grown out of a partnership between writers incarcerated in Minnesota prisons and non-incarcerated writers from the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

The nonfiction writer Joe Wilkins highlights journals that have published his essays, including Orion Magazine and River Teeth.

Inspired by Ross Gay’s poetry, Just Buffalo Literary Center embarked on a six-month project this year to explore patterns of gratitude and delight with their local literary community. 

Daniel Umemezie, the national youth poet laureate, discusses the impact of poetry on his formative years, art as a door to empathy, and the value of cultivating a creative life.

Create a poem that grows out of an imagined universe, a story set in a haunted home, or a memoiristic account that chronicles an important friendship with someone you have worked with professionally.

An author explores the numerous benefits of generative writing, a collaborative writing method that can help counter the ruthless editor within and encourage boldness and joy in its place.

A poet considers the creative rewards of setting text to a composer’s music and suggests how any writer might take the leap from page to song.