of Writers & Writing Programs conference in ... Similarly, it seems impossible to imagine what contemporary American poetry would look like without this longstanding organization.

According to one academic journal, “No other American bookstore has done more to encourage experimentation in modern ...

Though the historical settings of contemporary American fiction are as diverse as the authors who create them, a significant portion of this work falls within a highly specific constellation of ...

All of these writers are showcased in the current issue of Monkey Business, the innovative Japan/American literary journal (now in its third year) founded and edited by Motoyuki Shibata, a well-known ...

short-story writer from Mississippi who received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” William Faulkner ...

“House Made of Dawn” — and helped inspire a flowering of contemporary Native American literature, died Jan. 24 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 89. His daughter Jill Momaday confirmed ...

He's credited with starting the contemporary Native American literary ... and he ushered in a renaissance in Native American literature. Megan Kamerick at member station KUNM has this remembrance.

of Writers & Writing Programs conference in ... Similarly, it seems impossible to imagine what contemporary American poetry would look like without this longstanding organization.