Librarian of Congress Names Ada Limón the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate
Earlier today, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced Ada Limón as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2022-2023. Limón will start the position in the fall, opening the library’s annual literary season on September 29th with a reading of her work in the Coolidge Auditorium. “Ada Limón is a poet who connects,” Hayden said during her announcement. “Her accessible, engaging poems ground us in where we are and who we share our world with. They speak of intimate truths, of the beauty and heartbreak that is living, in ways that help us move forward.”
Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder
Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, is wanted by Zambian authorities for questioning in the death of a man whose execution-style killing was caught by an ABC News documentary crew in 1996. You can read the full story written by Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, which published in The Atlantic yesterday.
Captain America 4 to be Directed by Julius Onah
Captain America 4, starring Anthony Mackie, has found its director in Nigerian American filmmaker Julius Onah, best known for the 2018 thriller The Cloverfield Paradox. Details about the story of the fourth Captain American film are still unknown, but Malcolm Spellman, the creator and head writer of Winter Soldier, is writing the script with Dalan Musson, a staff writer on the show. No start date for filming has been announced yet.
Kwame Alexander Hosting New Reality TV Show America’s Next Great Author
America’s Next Great Author, hosted by Kwame Alexander, will feature six finalists who will each attempt to write their book in a month.