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The Whiting Foundation provides support for writers, editors, educators, and the librarians and archivists who preserve our shared cultural heritage.
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The winner of our 2024 nonfiction prize is 'Anticipatory Grief.' Judge Edgar Gomez noted '[it] offers us a deeply felt meditation on mortality from the perspective of a chaplain.”
Join us Thurs 5/23 as we chat with Misty Kiwak Jacobs, MDiv at our Spring Reading! tickettailor.com/events/bellevu…
![The winner of our 2024 nonfiction prize is 'Anticipatory Grief.' Judge @otroedgargomez noted '[it] offers us a deeply felt meditation on mortality from the perspective of a chaplain.” Join us Thurs 5/23 as we chat with @MissTikiwak at our Spring Reading! tickettailor.com/events/bellevu…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNo-zg4XkAAibnH.jpg "Bellevue Literary Review (@BLReview) on Twitter photo 2024-05-15 18:48:24 The winner of our 2024 nonfiction prize is 'Anticipatory Grief.' Judge @otroedgargomez noted '[it] offers us a deeply felt meditation on mortality from the perspective of a chaplain.” Join us Thurs 5/23 as we chat with @MissTikiwak at our Spring Reading! tickettailor.com/events/bellevu…")
Ghost-faced bats pollinate your dog-eared flowers
which smell like wet rope, melon.
The sky is a century with no windows.
I say things like that. Sorry.
- 'To a Blossoming Saguaro' by Whiting winner @eduardoccorral, via Poetry | The Nation buff.ly/3UYAZYI
'A poetry collection of considerable courage and vulnerability.' GOOD MONSTER by Whiting winner Diannely Antigua is one of @electriclit's new and forthcoming poetry collections to check out! buff.ly/4djfusW
should I tell him I’m a brownling, roughed—
gruffed while growing up into eating
every single grain of rice in my bowl?
the cashier says nothing.
- 'I can’t afford a whole universe' by Whiting winner Ina Darling, via Asian American Writers' Workshop buff.ly/3UteERu
What object could I, if I stood before
Them, any ancestor, what object could
I gesture to, to start to learn the language
Wherever I have met them, if I stood
- 'Race in Language' by Whiting winner Shane McCrae, via Poetry Daily buff.ly/3JXWKSp
'If you’re going to tell a story about the end of the world, the end is not the real story. The real story, the one that needs to be told, is the story of what’s worth saving.' Whiting winner justin cronin on why we read stories about the end of the world buff.ly/4bavFqJ
I wrote about Claire Messud's latest book—a sprawling, multigenerational novel that wrestles with form in interesting ways—for The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
'In these days of digital newspapers, I find The Budget delivers a comforting, hefty thump when it lands in my rural mailbox.' Whiting winner Mary Swander on The Budget newspaper for Iowa Capital Dispatch buff.ly/4aZ5V0B
“I sniff the tops of the rose heads / like a newborn’s scalp—fresh skin and hair / only a few days picked.” Watch Whiting winner Diannely Antigua read her poem “I Buy My Monster Roses,' via Poets & Writers buff.ly/3wmG1Vz
'It’s an exciting new window into well-known writers like Ralph Ellison and Gwendolyn Brooks, and it offers a chance to rediscover forgotten figures like Vincent O. Carter.' - Boston Globe Books reviews THE BLUE PERIOD by Whiting winner Jesse McCarthy buff.ly/4bLUU2T
For The Nation I wrote about Vinson Cunningham's debut novel, Great Expectations. Really enjoyed it, but not for the reasons I expected. thenation.com/article/cultur…
“Our stories don’t go in a straight line, they have crests and waves.” —Safiya Sinclair
In her memoir 'How To Say Babylon,' the poet draws from oral histories and Jamaica's landscape to tell her story of growing up in a strict Rastafari household.
bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
