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We've been going back and taking a deeper look into the new issue of Talisman (we made mention of Joel Lewis's essay on Baraka last week), and appreciating the generous...

Morgenthau joins NPR's Scott Simon to discuss the publication of his first poetry collection, Sunday in Purgatory, which arrives on bookshelves as Morgenthau turns 100. (He began to write poetry...

Steve Zultanski wrote about Alice Notley's Benediction (Letter Machine Editions, 2015) for the Los Angeles Review of Books in December, and the essay is a don't-miss, as it furthers "[t]he...

NPR's Alice Fordham travels to Cambridge to meet Nineb Lamassu, a researcher who is studying the traditional epic poetry of the Assyrian empire, which spread into what is now Northern...

A few people have recently suggested that I write about my poetic evolution. In a poetry community it’s funny how a few can feel like a horde, a clamoring.  “A...

For the New York Times's Book Review section, Ben Ratliff reads Mary Ruefle's newest Wave collection, My Private Property, containing "short reports" on subjects ranging from menopause to dolls, balloons,...

At Asymptote, new reviews of work in translation, including translator and poet Alexis Almeida on Chilean author Galo Ghigliotto's Valdivia, translated by Daniel Borzutzky (co • im • press, 2016)....

At BOMB Magazine, Zoë Hitzig goes from Rahm Emanuel to Philip Mirowski by way of contextualizing Danniel Schoonebeek's sophomore poetry collection, Trébuchet. It "challenges our contemporary American brand of capitalism...

Benjamin Hollander reviewed Julien Poirier's Out of Print (City Lights, 2016) for Boston Review. The editors append a saddening note: "Poet, editor, and teacher Benjamin Hollander died on November 21,...

Anne Boyer's new essay, "Clickbait Thanatos: On the poetics of post-privacy," was published yesterday at Real Life magazine. The thesis seems thus: Poetry, which was once itself a searching engine, exists...