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:
Barbara Streisand kicked off BEA last night with "an extensive and candid conversation with Oprah confidante Gayle King." (Los Angeles Times)
The ABA announced a digital book partnership with Google that will begin with the official launch of Google Editions this summer. (Publishers Weekly)
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has delayed the release of his upcoming memoir indefinitely in order to focus fully on the "massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is washing up on Louisiana's shores." (KLFY)
A new software program can detect sarcasm in writing. (New Scientist)
David Remnick was honored at the Author's Guild's annual gala last night, while Garrison Keillor persistently delivered jokes about the death of the publishing industry. Keillor likened the evening to "the 1989 convention of typewriter repairmen." (Wall Street Journal)
Picador is launching a new book prize for unpublished U.K. poets in the hopes of creating an "equivalent in the U.K. to the Yale Series of Younger Poets." (Guardian)
The fifteenth International Poetry Festival in Havana, Cuba, kicked off on Monday with poets from over forty countries participating in a week of concerts, dances, and readings. (Solvisión)
Memorial ceremonies were held in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in other cities around the world on Monday to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Russian Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, who died in 1996. (English News)
