Here are a few things that have recently caught our attention.

• Lorna Goodison, the Poet Laureate of Jamaica, has been awarded the coveted Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
• The controversy of Peter Handke’s winning the Nobel Prize for Literature enters a new chapter as the author has been declared “persona non grata” by Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo.
• An English professor at the University of Florida has been formally reprimanded for checking out 728 books from the school library, exceeding the faculty limit of 350.
• Slate’s picks for the decade’s top works of YA fiction.
• North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green profiled as one of INDY Week’s “19 People of 2019.”