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Things To Do: Readings & Talks by Rich Smith Find a complete list of readings and talks in Seattle this winter on our Things To Do calendar. Dec 9 Patrisse Cullors, cofounder of #BlackLivesMatter: Budget Matters 2015 Summit Patrisse Cullors...

“She must turn around and see / what has happened to her, or she will go mad,” the speaker of Robin Coste Lewis’s poem “On the Road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari” remarks as she watches a group of men coax a water buffalo to face her stillborn calf. This is what...

[insert] boy, YesYes Books, 2014. Danez Smith is the recipient of a 2014 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from Poetry Magazine & The Poetry Foundation. He is also the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight Foundation...

The 196 Moments in Music, Art, Books, Theater, Film and TV That Helped Us Survive 2016 by Stranger Staff It will come as no surprise to anyone that 2016 was the kind of nightmare where you wake up just as the killer's knife is about to pierce your...

The National Book Foundation today announced that this year’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community will be presented to Cave Canem, an organization that supports African American poetry. In its 12th year, the award...