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BOMB 138 is here, and brings with it an interview with Cuban-born poet and novelist Marcelo Morales, whose newest poetry collection, El mundo como ser (The World as Presence, University...

Third Wave Foundation and Black Took Collective Co-founder Dawn Lundy Martin spoke with Julie Marie Wade on a recent visit to Miami, where she spoke at the Miami Book Fair...

At The Volta Blog, Sam Lohmann reviews Renee Gladman's Calamities, recently published by Wave. It "wrecks genre," Lohmann writes. "Calamities is a book about writing and how to go on....

A Chinese doctor, Dr. Zhao Xiaogang, deputy chief of thoracic surgery at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital of Tongji University, realized his dream of becoming a published poet after a stint...

Camille Rankine talks with PEN America's Hafizah Geter for the PEN Ten series. "[A]s you read this, I'm tapping my foot expectantly waiting for her next book," says Geter, who...

[Editor's Note: On January 12th, 2016, C. D. Wright passed away at the age of 67. Below, Brian Teare remembers Wright and pays tribute to her work and legacy.] In 2005,...

A new issue of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics is out, and features an excerpt from New York poet Joel Lewis's ongoing project/memoir of his relationship with...

Did you know that David Bowie's recent musical, Lazarus, was "initially conceived as a show about Jewish-American poet Emma Lazarus"? In this article, written for The Forward, Seth Rogovoy remarks...

BookRiot recommends poetry and fiction in translation published this month, and among the poetry picks from Rachel Cordasco are Czeslaw Milosz’s unfinished work of science fiction, The Mountains of Parnassus...

Klara du Plessis reviews Lisa Robertson's latest book, 3 Summers (Coach House), for The Rusty Toque. Recalling Robertson's note to Charles Bernstein that 3 Summers is less a "book as...