- Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists will be announced Monday, April 12. Some of Folio Found’s favorite recent books have won the prize. Claudia Emerson’s Late Wife
, the 2006 awardee, comes to mind as among the top few books of the past decade. The National Book Award tends to have a fair degree of overlap, so good bets are: Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy; Rae Armantrout, Versed; Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again; Carl Phillips, Speak Low; and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval.
- Derek Walcott describes the process of writing his poem “XLVIII” from Midsummer.
- Following recent turmoil in Kyrgyzstan, there are fears the US might lose its lease on the Manas airfield, used as a refueling station against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Non-US air bases cannot be named after US citizens, so the center’s name refers to the Epic of Manas, one of the few living oral epics. If you want a taste, watch this short video about manaschi Sayakbai Karalaev.
- The Guardian looks at Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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