Some things that caught our attention this week.

• The Center for Fiction is running a Kickstarter to fund its Fiction Talks Podcasts. The series will “feature exclusive talks taken from [their] vast archive, bringing you the thoughts, feelings, and advice of great authors from the world of fiction.” The money raised will go toward improving the audio quality of the archive and events to come.

• Penguin is relaunching its Modern Poets Series. The original incarnation ran from 1962–1979, with a three-year return in the 1990s. The new series will begin next month, with If I’m Scared We Can’t Win, featuring the work of Anne Carson, Sophie Collins and Emily Berry. Penguin Poetry Editor Donald Futers said, “There’s a strong case for our finding ourselves right now in a golden age for poetry. Between creative writing programmes, an abundance of new publications, the ever-growing popularity of spoken word and performance poetry—think of Kate Tempest, or Warsan Shire—and a new generation made unprecedentedly available to one another across national boundaries by the internet, exciting poetry … is being written on a staggering scale.”