Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:
One of Iran's preeminent poets, Simin Behbahani, was prevented from leaving the country to attend an International Women's Day ceremony in France. Behbahani, who also happens to be a former mtvU poet laureate, joins a long list of Iranian feminist activists subject to travel bans since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005. (Al Arabiya)
Samsung launched a new e-reader that allows you to write in the margins. (PC World)
The recently debunked book on the Hiroshima bombings raises the question, again, of whether authors or publishers are reponsible for factual claims made in works of nonfiction. (New York Times)
Rhode Island's poet laureate is also an innkeeper, much to the benefit of the writers and artists to whom she generously opens her doors. (Block Island Times)
Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review turns sixty this year and will celebrate by changing from a print to a Web publication starting in 2011.
The ghostwriter of former President George W. Bush's forthcoming memoir is a bit younger than you might have guessed. (Daily Beast)
A public library in Florida is offering free Internet and phone access to Haiti to help with earthquake relief efforts. (Library Journal)
The next generation of e-readers "will make today's e-book readers look like Model T versions," reports PC World.
According to claims in a new book, the novelist and Booker Prize winner Dame Iris Murdoch had a secret love affair with one of her students. (Telegraph)
An indie bookstore in Brooklyn is launching its own literary journal, which will feature "150 pages of fiction and photography from local and international artists and authors." (New York Daily News)
