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Recently, I called upon the mild mannered, ferociously enthusiastic cofounder of Cave Canem, Cornelius Eady. I was curious about his perspective on the last two decades of CC. He shared...

We were saddened to hear of the death of Benjamin Hollander, who died on November 21st. At Jacket2, Joshua Schuster and Steve Dickison remember Hollander as a poet of conversation....

Like many of us, poet and critic Stephen Burt is still struggling to determine how poetry can matter on the verge of a "kleptocratic, potentially authoritarian, generation-long takeover." At the...

Sector 2337, of Green Lantern Press, hosts a conversation between Matthew Reed Corey and Jose-Luis Moctezuma about the politics of sleep and consciousness. Corey's latest project, Cream Rinse "investigates...

Open Culture gives the gift of deep listening, posting a reverent, 20-hour playlist of music dedicated to Pauline Oliveros, who passed away last Thursday at the age of 84. Oliveros...

A Forrest Gander essay about translating Pablo Neruda's lost poems went up at Literary Hub last week. The poet and translator admits that he's often preferred to champion terrific lesser-known...

Anytime is a good time to read some poems by Emily Dickinson, but over at the New Yorker, Dan Chiasson argues that the current moment may be the best time...

The Reading List is a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog. This month contributors to the November 2016 issue share some books that held their interest. Kaveh Akbar It’s a funny thing...

William Logan of the New York Times writes that "Ishion Hutchinson’s darkly tinged yet exuberant new poems are the strongest to come out of the Caribbean in a generation." A...

New York Magazine editors are recommending 13 new poetry books for the holidays (that's right, list-season is upon us). "Balms for the soul," they call them! Writer Mike Albo gives...