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Although Claudia Rankine, the author of ground-breaking collection Citizen, explains to the New Yorker's Lauretta Charlton that her newest project, the Racial Imaginary Institute, has been in the works prior...

I don’t remember ever being introduced to the poet Matt Longabucco, nor do I remember the first time we hung out together. I want to have an amazing anecdote about...

Today we'll get things rolling with a healthy and helpful perspective from one of our favorite writers, the poet, novelist, and playwright Jean Genet—always words to fortify! At Hyperallergic, Tim...

At the New York Times Holland Cotter surveys "I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson," an exhibition of Emily Dickinson relics that opened last week...

For Inauguration Day, Brandon Shimoda delivered a talk at the Holocaust History Center at the Jewish History Museum, in Tucson, Arizona; and the Asian American Writers' Workshop has published it....

Sean Elder of Lion's Roar ("Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time") spent time with famed poet Gary Snyder on the eve of his recent appearance at San Francisco's City Arts and...

According to the Atlantic, Donald Trump (for a so-called outsider) isn't breaking party lines when it comes to poetry. The newly-minted President hasn't invited a poet to speak at his...

Peter Gizzi's Archeophonics (Wesleyan, 2016) is reviewed by Martha Ronk at Constant Critic this month. "The book directly raises questions of how one is to go about the writing of...

Quite an essay in Spoon River Review: John Beer writes about the political lyric as he finds it in Blue Fasa, by Nathaniel Mackey; Ban en Banlieu, by Bhanu Kapil;...

Leslie Lawrence of WBUR (Boston) weighs in on a few choice reading materials in preparation for Trump's inauguration to the White House. In today's commentary, "If Trump Won't Give Us...