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Celebrate National Poetry Month, Sign Up for Knopf’s “Poem a Day”

The Academy of American Poets officially designated April as National Poetry Month beginning in 1996. This annual celebration highlights the extraordinary legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets while marking poetry’s important place in our culture and everyday lives.

Since its founding in 1915, Knopf has published some of the finest poets of all time. You are invited to celebrate this tradition by signing up for Knopf’s Poem-A-Day program. Each day throughout April, Knopf e-mails out a free poem by a new or established poet drawn from the imprint’s extensive list of books. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Autism Acceptance Month

“Autistic is not a swear word. It is a beautiful word, a name for an identity that represents an entire group of people who are diverse in their personalities, characters, abilities, and deficits. Autism is not homogeneous. Autistics are not homogeneous. But we are everywhere.” —Lydia X. Z. Brown

In honor of Autism Acceptance Month, Penguin Random House is excited to share this list of books by and for autistic people—from groundbreaking memoir and biography, to swoon-worthy romance, to middle grade detective fiction, and more. Continue reading →

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Westminster’s 24th Annual PRH Book Fair Goes Virtual

The 2021 Penguin Random House Book Fair is scheduled for Friday, April 9, and Saturday, April 10. Respecting the safety of our community, the 24th annual presentation of this popular extravaganza will take on a hybrid virtual format this year and consist of a variety of activities delivered via a micro-site.

Please join us, from the comfort of your own home, for the re-imagined Fair! Continue reading →

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ALA Penguin Random House Library Award for Innovation Announces 2021 Winner

Penguin Random House and the American Library Association (ALA) have announced the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library as the 2021 winner of the ALA’s Penguin Random House Library Award for Innovation. The award recognizes U.S. libraries and librarians who create lasting innovative community service programs that successfully inspire and connect with new readers. The library will be honored at the ALA Annual Meeting in June. Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: The Body

The subject today is the body. Our cue comes from THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 125 weeks. The pandemic has made us even more acutely aware of our bodies and the following books help us understand our physiology in profound ways: Continue reading →

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Penguin Random House Supports New Mental Health Initiative for Young New Yorkers

Penguin Random House has partnered with The Mayor’s Office of ThriveNYC and NYC Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD) to launch “Pathways to Wellbeing,” a partnership that provides new mental health libraries in all five boroughs, which will include books written by young authors of color, at ten of the City’s Cornerstone Community Centers in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)developments.

The initiative also includes mental health training for all Cornerstone staff and will increase community-based pathways to mental health support for youth and young adults.

All 10 new mental health libraries will have access to books published by Penguin Random House and written for young adults that explore mental health challenges in their writing, including:

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There’s a Book for That: National Poetry Month Celebrates 25 Years!

Happy National Poetry Month – the largest literary celebration in the world! 2021 marks 25 years since the Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month in April, 1996. The choice of April was inspired by the first line of T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”: “April is the cruellest month…”

Ushering in a new appreciation for the power of poetry is Amanda Gorman and her inaugural poem THE HILL WE CLIMB. Clearly, there’s no wasteland when it comes to poetry at Penguin Random House. Whether your proclivities are for free, blank or rhyming verse, lyrical poetry, prose poems, sonnets, elegies, odes… We’ve got it all! Here are just some of the astounding poets, a range of brilliant voices, we’ve published in the past year: Continue reading →

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