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De-Canon discusses moving forward after Junot Diaz's groundbreaking 2014 New Yorker article "MFA vs POC," which revealed many of the institution's flaws, shortcomings, and disservices to writers of color. According...

In a recent article at Jacket Copy, John Freeman contextualizes Layli Long Soldier's first collection, Whereas, as lexicon. He explains, "The best poetry debuts are often lexicons. You can see...

—for Mo Research is a mysterious thing. When it is working, the research finds the researcher. This does not mean being passive; but it can contain an element of passivity, letting...

The 10th annual Best Translated Book Awards have been announced! Congratulations go out to Yvette Siegert for her translation of Alejandra Pizarnik’s Extracting the Stone of Madness (New Directions, 2016),...

"Resides in the borderlands" is a good way to place Ian Hatcher, who writes and performs poems, expands on the limits of digital and print literature, and is often to...

This weekend, let's go to Massachusetts for the 9th annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival. WBUR's Greg Cook spoke with participants and organizers about the festivities for the station's arts newsletter. "The...

Alexander Stewart, "Silverlake Ribbon 3," 2016 For our May 2017 playlist, we asked contributor Phillip B. Williams to curate a selection of music for us. You can read about his approach to creating...

Jasper Bernes writes an essay for the May issue of e-flux, titled "The Poetry of Feedback" about American literature and counterculture during this period of cybernetics. "If you were a...

As part of a special feature called "Facing the Anthropocene," Swedish poet Aase Berg’s Hackers (Black Ocean, 2017), translated by Johanness Göransson, is reviewed at the Council for European Studies'...

As part of Brooklyn Academy of Music's "Eat, Drink & Be Merry" series, poet and novelist Ben Lerner joined the New Yorker's fiction editor Deborah Treisman on Tuesday night to...