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Patti Smith Wins Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts 2026: Poetry, Punk, and a Prize Long Overdue

Spain's Princess of Asturias Foundation has awarded its 2026 Arts prize to Patti Smith, 79, for her "impetuous creativity that connects rock, symbolist poetry and the spirit of the counterculture." In October, Oviedo awaits the godmother of punk.

Literature

An Unpublished Lorca Poem Surfaces — Found by a Flamenco Singer

Miguel Poveda has announced the discovery of an unknown poem by Federico García Lorca, to be published on April 27 in Granada. Nearly ninety years after his death, Lorca keeps finding ways to surprise us.

News

Arthur Sze Reappointed Poet Laureate: Poetry as a Bridge Between Worlds

There is a kind of poet who does not write from a center, but from the space between places. Arthur Sze's second term as U.S. Poet Laureate carries his lifelong project of bridging languages and cultures.

Literature

The Whiting Award Names Ten Emerging Writers for 2026

The Whiting Foundation has announced this year’s ten recipients — fiction writers, poets, essayists, and a playwright — each receiving $50,000. A list worth reading against the backdrop of an industry in upheaval.

Literature

When Writing Is Both Sentence and Liberation: The 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows

Twenty writers whose lives have intersected with the criminal legal system are named as the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows. A reminder that literature survives in the smallest rooms.

Reviews

Ada Limón's Case for Poetry as Survival

The US Poet Laureate publishes her first essay collection, a passionate defense of the poem as an act of resistance. For those of us who grew up knowing poetry saves lives, this book was necessary.

News

No Shortlist, No Campaign: The Windham-Campbell Prizes Honor Eight Writers

Yale's most quietly administered literary prize has announced eight 2026 recipients, each receiving $175,000. The list spans continents and forms — from Gwendoline Riley's brittle British fiction to Karen Solie's Canadian poetry of grief and northern light.